Synthia Saint James, international award winning artist and designer of the first United States Postal Stamp for the Kwanzaa holiday, has to date written and or illustrated 13 children’s picture books, 3 poetry and prose books, 4 children’s activity books, a cookbook, and a postcard book. She is the receipient of The Woman of the Year Award for the 26th Senate District, and she has garnered numerous other awards including a Parent’s Choice Silver Honor for her book Sunday, a Coretta Scott King Honor Award for illustrating
Neeny Coming…Neeny Going, and an Oppenheim Gold Award for the book
To Dinner For Dinner, which she illustrated. Signing 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Bright Lights Bookstore, 8461 S. Van Ness Avenue, Los Angeles.
