Matthew Swanson, Robbi Behr, and The Busload of Books

Artists & Authors
For Families
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Auditorium
Free with Museum admission

Author/illustrator, husband/wife duo Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr will be visiting The Carle as part of their Busload of Books Tour, a national literacy project in which they and their four kids will visit high-need elementary schools in all 50 states (plus DC), doing presentations on creativity and handing out 25,000 free books—while living and traveling in a converted school bus. Join Robbi and Matthew for a presentation and reading of Everywhere, Wonder, their picture book about noticing the world and using experience to tell one’s own stories. They’ll also describe their creative process, talk about their travels, and give tours of their tiny home school bus.

Book signing to follow program. Can’t make the event? You may reserve signed books online.

Who You'll Meet
Photo of Robbi Behr and Matthew Swanson

Robbi Behr and Matthew Swanson

Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr are author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed Cookie Chronicles series, The Real McCoys trilogy, and the picture books Sunrise Summer, Babies Ruin Everything, and Everywhere, Wonder. When not advocating for local schools, giving talks on creative entrepreneurship, or running a summer salmon fishing operation on the Alaskan tundra, they live in an old barn on the Eastern Shore of Maryland—making books and raising their four kids.
Visit the shop

In the Bookshop

A boy rides a bicycle chasing a blue balloon next a white dalmation.

Everywhere, Wonder

A boy looks at a fortune cookie message with a fearful expression on his face.

Ben Yokoyama and The Cookie of Doom

A boy points with a shocked expression to a hand stealing a cookie.

Ben Yokoyama and The Cookie Thief

A girl stands triumphantly with finger in the area and a boy with glasses stands atop a ladder.

The Real McCoys

A parent and child smile and hold fish in a small boat while more fish swim in the ocean around them.

Sunrise Summer