Car interior showing hand on steering wheel and teddy bear against dashboard. Rearview mirrow shows a child in the backseat. Looking out the widsheild on a snowy day.
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Sydney Smith, Illustration for Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith (Neal Porter Books). © 2023 Sydney Smith.

Special Storytime: Sydney Smith

Artists & Authors
For Families
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Reading Library
Free with Museum admission

Join multiple award-winning creator Sydney Smith as he reads from his new book, Do You Remember? In a series of warm and wistful vignettes, as achingly fleeting as childhood memories always become, Sydney Smith takes us into the mind of a young person processing a bevy of complex emotions during a major life change. Do You Remember? is a stirring meditation on holding fast to the best of the past, and choosing to believe in the future.

Book signing to follow program. Can’t make the event? You may reserve signed books online.

Who You'll Meet
Artist Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith is the author and illustrator of Small in the City, which received the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Ezra Jack Keats Award. Other books he has illustrated include The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart; Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson; and Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz, which received the Kate Greenaway Medal. His other accolades include two Governor General’s Awards for Illustrated Children’s Books and four New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year citations. He is also the illustrator of I Talk Like a River, written by Jordan Scott, which received the Schneider Family Book Award and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and My Baba’s Garden, also written by Jordan Scott. Sydney lives with his family in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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In the Bookshop

A close up of a child's face stares solemnly at the reader.

Do You Remember?

A shirtless boy wades into the small rapids of the river.

I Talk Like A River

A child holds hands with their baba as they walk througha meadow of green with read flowers.

My Baba's Garden

A child in a red sweatshirt holds their father's hand while also holding dandelions, while walking through a black and white city.

Sidewalk Flowers

A child's profile and a scenic city play together in the reflection of a window.

Small in the City

A mischeivous silhouette runs through the book title and through the town.

Smoot: A Rebellious Shadow