On Thursday, July 13, at 4pm, at the West Tisbury Library, illustrator Kate Feiffer and editor Sue Berger Ramin will discuss their collaboration on the new book The Lamb Cycle: What the Great English Poets Would Have Written About Mary and Her Lamb (Had They Thought of It First). In The Lamb Cycle, poet David R. Ewbank reinterprets the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb” in the style and substance of the great English poets from Edmund Spenser to Stevie Smith. Kate’s witty and whimsical line drawings are throughout the book. Her biggest challenge, she said, was figuring out how to illustrate a book for adults based on a nursery rhyme for children. This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Vineyard resident Kate Feiffer is the author of eleven children’s books, including Henry the Dog with No Tail, My Mom is Trying to Ruin My Life, and Double Pink. Her illustrations have been published in the various Vineyard publications and she’s had several shows of her work on the Island. Her artwork can also be found at R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, MA. Kate is the event producer for the writer’s festival. Islanders Write. Lamb Cycle is the first book she has illustrated and her first novel for adults will be published in 2024.

Sue Berger Ramin has worked in book publishing ever since she left university in the UK.  Running the Film & TV Department at Penguin Books led her to open an office for Penguin in Los Angeles, where she spent sunny years publishing books, and co-producing two movies.  She moved to Boston where she became Associate Publisher at independent David R. Godine, Publisher (publisher of two Nobel Prize-winners for Literature) before joining Brandeis University Press in 2019.  She is excited to be at BUP at a time of expansion for the press, and looks forward to new initiatives, new subjects and, of course, many new books.

Books will be available for purchase and signing. 

This event is free and open to the public!