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| Franny Billingsley (photo: Richard Pettengill) |
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Effective today, Franny Billingsley, the award-winning author of Well Wished, Big Bad Bunny, The Folk Keeper and Chime (a 2011 National Book Award Finalist in Young People's Literature), is reprising her role as children's manager of 57th Street Books in Chicago's Hyde Park. Billingsley, who held the position through most of the 1990s, left in 1999 to pursue writing full-time with considerable success.
She "found, however, that she missed her tribe of booksellers and readers that comprise the 57th Street Books community," the bookstore noted. "Franny is thrilled to be returning to children's bookselling and feels especially lucky to have landed once again at the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, adding that of the many bookstores she's seen, they are the best. She will be honored at the Children's Book Fair 30th Anniversary Gala on Monday, June 6, 2016 at the Hyde Park Bank Building."