Live and in person at Brookline Booksmith! Join us for a special Picture Book Hour with author Linda Cutting and illustrator Léonie Little-Lex, reading A Is for Always.

This event will include a live signing, and any books preordered on this page will be signed and personalized!

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Books will be available for purchase at the event, but you can ensure that you get a copy by preordering on the registration page. You can pick your book up after 10:00AM on the day of the event.

Can't make it to the event? Preorder the book on the registration page to have it signed and personalized, and choose to have it held or shipped from the store!
 

A Is for Always

A is for Always. With your hand in mine,

Adoption’s a gift that will last for all time.

With gentle rhymes and lovely illustration, A Is for Always celebrates the joy and love of adoption from A to Z. With B for birth parents, Q for questions, and U for understanding, each page shows a different adoptive family of cuddly animals welcoming and cherishing a new child.

Linda Katherine Cutting, award-winning author of the memoir, Memory Slips, has also published in The New York Times, The London Guardian, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, Wired, and The Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women. She lives with her husband and two adopted children in Brookline.

Léonie Little-Lex is a fine artist and illustrator who lives with her husband on Cape Cod, MA. She shows her work on the Cape and in the greater Boston area, and has exhibited nationally in Oregon, New York, and North Carolina. She works in a variety of media with an emphasis on painting and pen and ink drawings. A is for Always is her first children's book.