The Colgate Bookstore will host an Elephant & Piggie Party for children on Tuesday, Sept, 14 at 4 p.m.

With help from the audience, bookstore staff will present a dramatic reading of the new Elephant & Piggie book by Mo Willems We Are In a Book!, followed by a story-themed craft, cake, and a party favor. The event is free, but to ensure enough supplies and snacks parents are asked to register their children in advance at www.colgatebookstore.com/party. Children of all ages are welcome, but the stories and activities are mainly geared towards ages 4-8.

We are in a Book! is the newest in the best-selling Elephant & Piggie series. When Piggie discovers that she and Gerald are in a book and she can make the reader say a funny word out loud, Gerald is tickled pink. But then Gerald realizes that the book is going to end soon--ack! What will happen then? Gerald just wants to be read!! As always, level-headed Piggie has an idea: she will ask the reader to start the book again. Using vocabulary perfect for beginning readers, Mo Willems has crafted a mind-bending Elephant & Piggie story that is more interactive than ever.

Everyone who attends will also receive a coupon for 20 percent off all Elephant & Piggie books in the store.

For more information call 228-7480.

Source: Colgate Bookstore

Local author Jim Ford will share a slide presentation based on his new book Sweet Cider Days: A History of Mott's in Bouckville, New York on Thursday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. at the Colgate Bookstore. A book-signing and reception will follow. This event is free and open to the public.

Most people have seen apple sauce or juice by Mott's in the grocery store. But how many people know that the company has roots in Upstate New York, in the tiny hamlet of Bouckville? Sweet Cider Days follows the story of the remarkable Mott family, beginning with the time of their arrival in central New York in 1868.

Jim Ford is a native of Madison, New York and attended Madison Central Schools and Oneonta State College. His Master's work was done at Colgate.  Ford taught junior high history for 34 years and for the past six years has been publishing a history of the Town of Madison.

His previous book was The Pride of Cidertown, a history of Bouckville Summits baseball team.