Join us in welcoming debut author Allie Millington with her new middle-grade book Olivetti, written from the point of view of a typewriter!
This isn't an ordinary author event; it’s also a type-in! If you have a typewriter, feel free to bring it. We'll have plenty of paper so that everyone can type a note or a poem during the event.
Moderated by Ali Standish.
Visit Flyleaf Books to pre-order your copy!
Bring your own typewriter to share with others, or try one provided by the author. Typewriter play starts at 4 pm, and a brief author talk happens @ 4:20 pm with a signing line to follow.
A heartfelt debut middle-grade novel told from the unique vantage points of a witty typewriter and an introverted boy—for fans of Wishtree and A Rover’s Story.
Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and recently replaced by a computer, Olivetti has been forgotten by the Brindle family—the humans he’s lived with for years. The Brindles are busy: Dad and Mom work constantly, three of their children put the extra in extra-curriculars, and Ernest, their shy twelve-year-old, goes off alone to read.
When Olivetti learns Mom has mysteriously gone missing, he believes he can help find her. He breaks the only rule of his ‘kind’ and types back to Ernest, who must face what he and his family have been running from, The Everything That Happened. Only by working together will they find the parts of themselves they’ve lost.
Allie Millington first wrote Olivetti on her own antique typewriter, who turned out to have an awful lot to say. She lives near Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and their fluffy dog. You can find her on Instagram: @alliemillington or online at www.alliemillington.com
Ali Standish is the Jane Addams Book Award Honor-winning author of books for the young and young at heart, including the Carnegie-nominated The Ethan I Was Before, August Isle, Bad Bella, The Climbers, How to Disappear Completely, The Mending Summer, and Yonder. Her books are Junior Library Guild Selections, have received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and School Library Journal, have been named as Indies Next titles, and have been nominated for Goodreads Choice Awards. During her years living in a tumble-down Victorian cottage in the UK, she obtained a master’s degree in Children’s Literature from the University of Cambridge. She now resides in North Carolina with her husband, son, and rescue dog.
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