As the audience was settling into the Dodge Room on a cold November night, one mother suddenly turned to another and, pulling a slim book out of her bag, asked, “Which one did you bring?”
“We’ve got Knuffle Bunny and three of the pigeon books,” came the reply.
On Nov. 1, as a full house waited for children’s book author Mo Willems, the excitement was palpable—particularly among his youngest fans, who had brought along their bedtime favorites. When Willems took the podium with an expansive, “Hi, guys! How are you? Let’s get started!” all eyes turned toward him.
Willems, the third author in the 2012 Writers’ Workshop Series, immediately launched into a story. He started to tell the tale of the three little pigs—only there were 10,000 pigs, one house was made of aluminum siding, and the little pigs ended up playing backgammon with the wolf.
The Reed Campus Center has long been known for a place of classical, jazz, and a cappella, but dubstep, acid jazz, or K-pop? Those are just a few of the new sounds students can expect to explore once a Reed classroom is transformed into the new Digital Music Lab.
Shreve has written 17 novels—including The Weight of Water, The Pilot’s Wife, and The Last Time They Met—and has received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction. But, as she confided to small group of faculty at dinner, presenting a public lecture still made her anxious.
Every Sunday around noon, shortly after he starts his shift, security officer Bob Carey climb up a step ladder outside of Reed and changes a brightly colored flag from blue to green or back again.