Hippo Book Launch
Local author to release second children’s storybook at Rowayton Library
ROWAYTON, CT - Seven years ago, then recent Brien McMahon High School graduate Jeremi Bigosiński launched his own publishing house and first children’s picture storybook, Adventures in Hippoville: Harry Hippo’s Flight. College, a Fulbright, getting over that “first book hurdle” and graduate school delayed his second book, until now. Adventures in Hippoville: Harry Hippo’s Lake Party will be officially launched at the Rowayton Library in Rowayton, Connecticut on Saturday, August 8th at 10:30am.
In their newest adventure, Harry Hippo and Icdabaa (IK-duh-buh) find new friends in their breakfast. Grateful for the rescue, the animals invite Harry to a lake party! But Harry has a problem: he can’t swim!
Children and their parents will be served iced tea and watermelon, two favorite foods of Harry Hippo and Icdabaa. A coloring activity is also planned. For more information, please contact the Rowayton Library at 203-838-5038.
About the Author
Jeremi Bigosiński, a children’s picture book author, illustrator and publisher has been fascinated with hippopotami for years. While attending UConn for a BFA in Sculpture, he visited local social organizations in a hippo costume to cheer up kids. In 2006, while on a Fulbright Fellowship in Poland, he cast a half-ton bronze sculpture of a hippopotamus. Actively engaged in hippo conservation, Bigosiński is a 2010 Masters Candidate in Landscape Architecture at RISD.
Founded in 1903, and moving to its present location in a Tudor Revival carriage house in 1966, the Rowayton Library strives to offer an attractive, comfortable setting to foster a lifelong love of words, language and learning among the community’s youth. The adjoining Community Center acts as a resource to local governing bodies, community associations and interest groups.
