Join CBW for a Special Event featuring Dave Eggers with his new book The Eyes and the Impossible on April 5 at 4 pm!
Children’s Book World is so excited to welcome Newbery Award Winner Dave Eggers for a very special signing event on Saturday, April 5th, 4:00PM. Dave will meet, chat and sign his delightful and beautiful story, The Eyes and the Impossible, a perfect read-a-loud for your entire family.
Books must be purchased at Children’s Book World to get your place in the signing line. Due to time constraints, only one book from home may be brought to the store to be signed.
Books will be available for pick up at the store after the event or shipped for delivery on April 7, 2025.
About Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is the author of the Newbery Medal winner The Eyes and the Impossible, along with bestsellers The Every, The Monk of Mokha, The Circle, A Hologram for the King, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. His work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco, and cofounder of 826 National, a network of educational centers around the country offering free tutoring to kids of all backgrounds.
He lives in Northern California with his family.
About The Eyes and the Impossible
WINNER OF THE JOHN NEWBERY MEDAL
Named a best book of 2023 by NPR, Publishers Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, Common Sense Media, Shepherd, the New York Public Library, the Chicago Public Library, Booklist, Kirkus, and Powell’s Books. A New York Times and ABA Indie bestseller, Today Show Summer Pick and Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
The Eyes and the Impossible is the story of a dog named Johannes. Johannes is a free dog, a fast dog—such a fast dog! He lives in an urban park by the sea, and every day, he runs through the park, seeing all, missing nothing, and reporting what he sees to the park’s three ancient Bison, the Keepers of the Equilibrium. But the Equilibrium has been disrupted.
Mysterious rectangles are hypnotizing Johannes, humans are erecting a strange new building, and an entirely new kind of animal has arrived in the park—and there are hundreds of them. Johannes must run faster, see better, and ultimately do more than run and see—he must liberate those he loves.
Gorgeously illustrated throughout by Shawn Harris (author of Have You Ever Seen a Flower? and illustrator of Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers, among many others), Dave Eggers’s The Eyes and the Impossible is a lyrical, soulful book full of wit and passion—a timeless story for readers of all ages.
★ “Utterly delightful…. Eggers touches on deep topics with a light hand, effortlessly building suspense and a wonderful sense of adventure.” —Booklist, starred review
★ “One remarkable creature vividly shows readers that ‘there is so, so much to see.’” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ “Eggers crafts a marvelous, fully fleshed protagonist in Johannes….whose compassionate narration delivers a rousing tale of community, joyful self-reliance, and the pleasures of running very, very fast.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review