An Evening with Gene Luen Yang

La Crosse Public Library invites you to join us for an evening with award-winning cartoonist, teacher and former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Mr. Gene Luen Yang.  Yang is the author of numerous graphic novels including The Shadow Hero, Boxers and Saints, Secret Coders, and American Born Chinese. He has also written for DC Comics, including issues of Superman and a full run of the New Super-Man, and for Dark Horse Comics, including graphic novel spinoffs ofAvatar: The Last Airbender.

This event is free! Seating is limited and is available only on a first come, first serve basis. Auditorium doors will open at 5:30pm. Mr. Yang will be available to sign his books after his presentation and his books will be available to purchase at the event.

WI YSSer's Local TedX Talk Goes National!

Great news about WLA YSS member Dawn Wacek and her TedX talk!
This past February UW-La Crosse hosted a show in town and invited some community people including their youth librarian at the La Crosse Public Library whose "idea worth spreading" was a fine-free library. Dawn's talk, recorded and loaded up on the TEDx platform, caught the attention of the curation team at the bigger international TED level and Dawn's talk is front and center as of November 15, 2019 on the TED homepage today (with 166K views after 10 hours). Check it out!