PAMKA's 2015 "Feelin' Groovy" Bookfair was a resounding success!

PAMKA's 2015 "Feelin' Groovy" Book Fair, the largest Scholastic Book Fair in the country, has once again been a truly resounding success. Led by Tri-Campus Chairs Toni Friedman and Leyla Ganchi, our magnificent PAMKA volunteers transformed spaces and organized events that brought good vibes to the MKA community.

Nathan Lane and Devlin Elliott garnered one of the biggest crowds to ever attend the Sunday Event, which was open to the public, selling out of their first children's book, Naughty Mabel. Dan Santat, Dan Gutman and Betty Birney made our youngest cougars giggle and gasp with delight as they demonstrated how they illustrate books, rapped with a dinosaur and explained how a hamster could certainly befriend a frog. Jennifer Nielsen, Jeff Smith and Chris Grabenstein inspired and motivated both middle school students and faculty alike to always be creative and exercise their imaginations and upper school students waited in line to meet Shane Snow after a thought-provoking lecture.

As always, thanks go out to Scholastic for their support, especially Judy Newman (a former MKA parent) and Carol Levine and to the parents on all three campuses that dedicate so much of their time to make this remarkable event possible.

Click here to see photos from the events (Sunday event photos courtesy of current MKA student Robert Tavoso '16)