I'll visit my parents in the Bay Area this week and appear (with Mom) at Milpitas Public Library. Then back on the Fire Escape briefly before heading to the Multicultural Children's Book Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Saturday, November 3, 2007 from 12 - 6. Stop by and say hi if you're in the area; my reading's from 1:40 until 2 o'clock.