Mac Barnett/Shawn Harris-THE FIRST CAT IN SPACE & THE BABY PIRATE'S REVENGE

Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore presents the power-house children's book author/illustrator duo Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris on Saturday, November 15 at 11:00 AM.

Join us for an immersive theatrical spectacular with Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris, the authors of The First Cat in Space and the Baby Pirate's Revenge! There will be live music, dramatic performances, and thrilling adventure, all in celebration of the fourth book in the bestselling First Cat in Space graphic novel series. And if you show up dressed as your favorite character from the books, you’ll get a special prize from Shawn & Mac!

This offsite event will be held at The Freight in downtown Berkeley. There is ample paid parking in area lots and BART is a block away. Click the link for location and "Getting There" details.

• This is a ticketed event and each ticket purchased includes one copy of the featured book and either one or two seats. Younger guests must be accompanied by an adult.
• Books will be pre-signed with no personalization and available for pick-up at the event. In lieu of a signing line, fans will have a chance to get their photo taken with Mac and Shawn.
• Additional pre-signed copies of the books in the series will be available for purchase at the event, as will their other books and First Cat Merchandise.

In the fourth installment of Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris’s New York Times bestselling series, the heroic trio of First Cat, LOZ 4000, and the Moon Queen take on Captain Babybeard and his crew of swashbuckling pirates.

Robot dog rovers on Mars! A nefarious banana! And a lot of other freaky stuff that really scares First Cat…that’s what’s in store for our feline hero and his friends in the next cataclysmic chapter of our bestselling blockbuster series.

When the notorious pirate Babybeard is mutinied and marooned on a deserted island, the Moon Queen enlists him as a privateer, where he’ll have to learn to rely on others to reclaim his ship—and restore his infamous reputation as the most dreaded pirate roaming the spacewaves!

Mac Barnett is the 2025–26 Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages. His picture books include two Caldecott Honor–winning collaborations with Jon Klassen: Sam & Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn. Among his other popular books are I Love You Like a Pig, illustrated by Greg Pizzoli, and The Magic Word, illustrated by Elise Parsley. He lives in Oakland, California. You can visit him online at macbarnett.com.

Shawn Harris’s first illustrated book, Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers, received seven starred reviews, was an Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book, an ALA Notable, and a PW Best Book of the Year. His other picture books include Eggers's What Can a Citizen Do, which was a Time Magazine Best Children’s Book, Everyone’s Awake by Colin Meloy, A Polar Bear in the Snow by Mac Barnett, and his own author-illustrated works Have You Ever Seen a Flower? and Doing Business. Harris also occasionally moonlights as singer-songwriter of the popular Oakland, California band the Matches, whose early 2000s album art sparked his illustration career.