By Maddy Posner Join Arvida in Celebrating Summer Reading with Author Guests! Arvida’s first Summer Reading Fest will be a fun-packed experience featuring many amazing authors and illustrators through the first weekend of July. The event is aimed towards readers of all ages, and will include a myriad of activities such as readings, interviews, Q&As, autograph signings, book giveaways, and more. Saturday, July 1st is the first day of the event; presenters will include six authors and two illustrators. Learn more about these incredible individuals by reading a little bit about them below!   Tootie Nienow A local children’s book...

Summer vacation is just around the corner, and while most students are excited to finally get a break from school, it can also mean a stop to learning and reading. As a parent or educator, you know how crucial it is to encourage kids to continue reading during summer break, to prevent the dreaded "summer slide." Luckily, there is a way to promote summer reading while also fundraising for your school, and it involves an online book fair tailored to your educators' and librarian's summer reading lists.  How does it work? An online book fair will be created specifically for...

Subscribe to our YouTube channel!    If you're a book lover, you know there's nothing quite like attending an author event. The excitement in the air, the chance to meet the author and get your book signed, and the opportunity to hear insights and behind-the-scenes details about your favorite books. But what if you can't make it to the event in person? That's where our YouTube channel comes in! We're excited to share that we've started streaming our author events and sharing them on our channel. Our channel features live streams of the author events that we host in our...

From Eco-Now: You read that right! We’re collaborating with Arvida Book Co on April 30th for our second ‘FIX IT FAIR’, you won’t want to miss! This event is packed full of amazing offerings including: 🔨For free, we will try to fix anything and everything, except electronics and relationships 😂 (Money back guarantee 🤣) (Think broken chairs, toaster, plates) 📖 @arvidabookco with coffee, drinks, treats, new and used books. ♻️ @eco.now.ca pop-up tent for all your refillable essentials. 🪱 eco now providing free worm/compost tea refills, free plastic container/bucket drilling for upcycling compost bins, and free ceramic/glass drain hole drilling for your plant pots (free,...

Meet the Author/Poet: Mariana Franco is a Latinx author, poet and many other titles from Pacoima, CA. Promoting body positivity and sensual womaness as @nakedpoet & as @nopal_flower. her poetic free verse fights against xenophobic-racist barriers. She is part of a large group of Los Angelean poets in an anthology  titled,  Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts of Los Angeles printed by Tía Chucha Press & in anthology/ historical document from the Los Angeles Poet Society titled Los Angeles Poets for Justice: A Document for the People. Her first Chapbook Heart of Fire  and  her first full length poetry...

This weekend’s events: Local poet Anatalia Velez on Saturday April 15th at 2pm. Q&A Moderated by Kundan Chhabra Washington D.C. based Sami Miranda on Sunday April 16th at 3pm.   Meet the Poets featured at this weekend’s events: Anatalia Velez: Anatalia Vallez is a writer, actor, and creative alchemist from Orange County and roots in Guerrero, Mexico. Passionate about using art as a tool for creating consciousness and community, she has performed poetry, performance art, dance, and theatre, leading to travels to Texas, Arizona, New York, Tijuana, Mexico and all across California. Anatalia was first published as a teenager through...