Special Storytime: Banned Books Week

Mk Smith Despres is the author of There’s That Sun Again, illustrated by Julie Benbassat, Night Song, a 2024 New England Book Award Finalist, illustrated by Hyewon Yum, and the First Friends board book series, illustrated by Aya Watanabe and Libby Burns. They write, teach, and read lots of books with their family in western Massachusetts.

Michelle Cusolito is the author of A Window into the Ocean Twilight Zone: Twenty-Four Days of Science at Sea, Diving Deep: Using Machines to Explore the Ocean, and Flying Deep: Climb Inside Deep-Sea Submersible Alvin, which also won the 2016 PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Children’s Book Discovery Award. She has been exploring natural places since she was a child growing up on a farm in Massachusetts.