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What's new
Meet Aldo!
Aldo Zelnick is the star of a new, award-winning comic novel series for kids by Karla Oceanak and Kendra Spanjer. The first book in the series, Artsy-Fartsy, is available through this website, and the second book in the series, Bogus, just arrived from the printer and is also now available! We invite you to place your order for signed, first-edition hardcovers on this website or by calling (970) 672-4878. Softcover versions are also available through amazon.com.
Come See Aldo at These Events
Come see Artsy-Fartsy and Bogus in person and get your own signed copy! We'll be hosting or attending these upcoming events:
Woodward Family Picnic, July 17, 11am-3pm, Fort Collins
New West Fest, August 21st & 22nd, Old Town Fort Collins. Drop by our booth and say hello!
Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Trade Show, September 23-25, Denver, Colorado
Applewood Arts Festival, November 20 & 21, The Ranch, Loveland, Colorado. Amazing artisans and Aldo, too! (Get all your Christmas shopping done in one fell swoop.)
Our Blatantly Unbogus Angels
Barbara Anderson
Carol & Wes Baker
Butch Byram
Annie Dahlquist
Leigh Waller Fitschen
Teresa Funke
Sawyer Gray (and Chris and Sarah)
Griff Griffin
Calvin Halvorson & Bennett Zent (and Chet)
Dick & Peggy Hohm
Chris Hutchinson
IBPAB (Jana Knezovich, Linda Mahan, Paola Price, Starr Teague & Jacki Witlen)
Becky Jensen and Jake & Dane Johnson
Anne Keasling
Vicki & Bill Krug
Tutu, Cole & Grant Ludwin
Virginia MacKinnon
The Mouton-Hoeven Family
Jackie O'Hara & Erin Rogers
Betty Oceanak
David Orphanides
Jackie Peterson
Ryan Petros
Terri Lynn Berryman Rosen
John Schiller & Suzanne Holm
Virginia Shelton
Slow Sand Writers Society
Barb & Steve Spanjer
Dana Spanjer
Vince & Adrianne Tranchitella
Laura White Welciek
Ken, Hagen & Smithey Hashagen Wilson
Now Featuring
Welp, more great news!
Artsy-Fartsy won the Colorado Book Award and the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Award!
At the Colorado Book Awards ceremony in Aspen on June 25, Artsy-Fartsy won the award for juvenile fiction. The awards "recognize outstanding contributions by Colorado authors and illustrators." Nice plaque and shiny gold stickers!
On the same day, we learned that Artsy-Fartsy had beat out 7 large press titles for the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Award in the children's chapter book category. This award honors the most outstanding book set in the 12-state region.
Creative Child magazine also bestowed Artsy-Fartsy recently with its Seal of Excellence.
And last month, Artsy-Fartsy took the bronze in Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award contest in juvenile fiction. BOTYA honors the best books published by independent publishers from across the country.
Aldo Across the Country
Readers across the country are finding out about Aldo. People in all the colored states have already purchased copies. Help us fill in the map!