Event Name: Author Talk with Gita George-Hatcher

Location: Create Space

Event Date: Friday, 9/26/2025

Event Time: 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Duration: 30 minutes

Author Talk with Gita George-Hatcher
Friday, September 26, 2025
1:00 & 2:00 pm, in Create Space
Cost: included with museum admission and Homeschool Day admission

Enjoy meeting children's book author Gita George-Hatcher for a special presentation of her book Kileeye, Kileeye! Birdie, Birdie! A bilingual story poem in English and Malayalam.

Kileeye, Kileeye! is a silly rhyme that the author made up to recite to one of her grandchildren. It was soon a favorite with all the grandchildren who wanted to hear the poem repeatedly until they started reciting it on their own! It quickly became apparent to the author that children's natural love of interesting rhymes and rhythms could be effective in teaching any language to young children as well as to adults, and thus the idea for making Kileeye, Kileeye! into a book was born!

This program is appropriate for all ages.

Books available for purchase in the museum store.

If you have any questions about this program, please contact Education at education@northwestmuseum.org.