Join us at the Brooklyn Museum for the 20th Annual Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair and meet your favorite local authors and illustrators. E.A. KAHANE and Tom Toro will share the newly released title from Aperture Kids, Between the Balloons: My Thanksgiving Parade, with copies available at the fair. Throughout the day, children can chat with authors and illustrators, listen to readings, watch artists sketch, get books signed, and participate in book-related art projects.
Larger-than-life balloon characters, marching bands, and delightful surprises fill every page of this magical take on the famed Thanksgiving Day Parade. A playful blend of photography and illustration, Between the Balloons reveals that with imagination anything you see can become something extraordinary.
The Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair is free with museum admission.
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Image: Pages from Between the Balloons: My Thanksgiving Parade (Aperture, 2026). Photographs copyright © 2026 E.A. KAHANE; illustrations copyright © 2026 Tom Toro
E.A. KAHANE is an artist whose photographic practice transforms images into immersive encounters. Her work has been shown at Art Center Sarasota, Florida; Museo Mille Miglia and MO.CA, Brescia; and New York Historical; a solo exhibition will take place at Sarasota Art Museum, Florida, in 2027. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum; New York Historical; Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island; Barack Obama Foundation, Chicago; and Museo Mille Miglia, Brescia, Italy. Between the Balloons, her first children’s book, was inspired by her photobook Come Join the Parade!! 25 Years from My Third Floor Window (2024). KAHANE divides her time between New York, Rhode Island, Florida, and Brescia, where she can be seen photographing landscapes, car races, parades, and portraits.
Tom Toro has published hundreds of cartoons in The New Yorker and his drawings have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, and other major publications. Toro’s children’s books include Crocodiles Need Friends, Too! (2025), Back to School, Backpack! (with Simon Rich, 2023), I’m Terrified of Bath Time (with Simon Rich, 2022), and How to Potty Train Your Porcupine (2020). He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family, and too many cats.
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