Secrets of Life, foster care, and charming children's book authors at Third Place Books

Authors at Third Place Books this week search for the meaning of life, expose the secrets of the foster care system, and entertain children.

Third Place Books, upper level Town Center, intersection of Bothell Way and Ballinger Way in Lake Forest Park.

Ralph White

The Jeweled Highway: On the Quest for a Life of Meaning (Divine Arts)

Monday, September 28 at 7pm

Filled with beauty, transcendence and vitality, The Jeweled Highway is about the search to find the secrets of life and give them to others. 

Dorothy Van Soest

At the Center (Apprentice House)

Tuesday, September 29 at 7pm

The stories of two seven-year-old boys in At the Center are intertwined with the secrets and personal demons of the families and the foster care and social workers that shape their lives. 

Tom Angleberger

McToad Mows Tiny Island (Abrams)

Wednesday, September 30 at 7pm

McToad likes Thursdays. Why? Because on every other day of the week, McToad mows Big Island, but on Thursdays, McToad mows Tiny Island.

To do so, he puts his mower on the back of a truck, which drives to a train, which goes to a helicopter, which flies to a boat, which uses a crane to put the lawn mower onto Tiny Island.

There McToad mows and drinks some lemonade, and before you know it, it s time to turn around and go back home. But first, the mower has to get lifted by a crane, to get put back on a boat, which is lifted by a helicopter, and . . . well . . . you get the idea.

From master storyteller Tom Angleberger and celebrated illustrator John Hendrix comes this playful narrative that treasures the journey over the destination, with lots of planes, trains, and automobiles to boot."