In-Store Storytime: Alicia Meyers, Tic-errific Me

East City Bookshop welcomes Alicia Meyers for an author storytime featuring her new book, TIC-ERRIFIC ME!

Note on Format: This event is in-store only.

Preorder your copy of Tic-errific Me in Eventbrite checkout as an add-on to your ticket.

ABOUT TIC-ERRIFIC ME

A child with Tourette syndrome shares her joys, struggles, and self-confidence

In Tic-errific Me, a young girl explains what it’s like to live with Tourette’s. Her verbal and motor tics come and go, and she never knows which tics will join her in her activities. Over time, she has learned that playing and relaxing help her tic less, and there are other things that make her tic more. Sometimes she needs the help of her parents, doctors, and therapist to relax her body. And she always remembers that the tics are one part of what makes her a terrific kid.

• Offers an honest portrayal of life with Tourette’s, including motor and verbal tics and their effect on life
• Celebrates disability joy and offers an empowering self-representation for disabled kids
• Helps children develop empathy and understanding with first-person storytelling from a child’s perspective
• Centers disabled voices by drawing on the author’s experience with Tourette syndrome

Alicia Meyers is a second-grade teacher in Washington, DC, and was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome at a young age. She is the author of The A-to-Z Teaching Toolkit for Early Childhood and Elementary Educators, and Tic-errific Me. As a neurodiverse author and teacher, she hopes to encourage those with TS to embrace their tics as part of who they uniquely are. When she’s not teaching or writing, she can be found singing, reading, color-coding things in rainbow order, and reminding others how totally tic-errific they are.