Unleash Summer Reading

2025

May 18, FREE, 1-3:30pm

 

​Schedule:

    1:00     Pages 'N Paws: Read to Therapy Dogs!

    1:30     Cincinnati Opera Storybook Hour

    2:00    Danise DiStasi

                  Author of Louie's Little Legs series

                  Read-Aloud and Book Signing

   2:30      Julie Whitney 

                  Author of Astra The Lonely Airplane

                  Read Aloud and Book Signing

All Day:

 

         The Bookery, book sales

 

         Free books from Queen City Book Bank

 

         Winn Reading

 

         Public Library  Summer Program 

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         Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

 

         Reading Crafts!

 

         Snacks!

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Local Author, Danise DiStasi

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Danise DiStasi, author and speaker, worked in the medical industry for 27 years after graduating with a degree from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. During that time, her positions ranged from nuclear medicine product specialist to manager and vice president of sales and marketing.

In 2001, she joined The Ken Blanchard Companies, working first in business development and then in leadership training. In 2007, she started DiStasi Advisors, LLC, coaching Fortune 500 C-Level executives and their teams on leadership, character development, productivity, performance, and team building solutions.

Danise has twenty years of professional writing experience and years of practical, hands on experience in leadership and business. In 2013, she adopted a seemingly unmanageable dog named Louie, and everything she thought she knew about life, love, and leadership, changed. Her experience with Louie spurred Danise to write. She has since teamed up with her grandchildren, Evi and Mea, to write children’s books based on Louie.

In addition to being an author, Danise currently assists others in writing their stories. She enjoys storytelling with her granddaughters, laughing at Louie’s silly antics, and spending time with her family.

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Local Author, Julie Whitney

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Julie Whitney is a public relations professional with forty years of experience

in public relations and marketing, having worked on both the agency and client

side as well as in the television industry. Her company, Phillippi-Whitney Communications,

LLC, founded in 2000, represents both large and small clients in a

wide variety of industries. She has promoted dozens of authors throughout her

career, often supplementing the efforts of the internal PR teams of their publishers.

She also works as on-camera talent, appearing in both television commercials

and video podcasts. She even appeared as an extra in the movie Grease,

which was shot on location in the summer of 1977 in Los Angeles.

Julie lives in Cincinnati with her husband Dan, a corporate pilot upon whom the 

character of Captain Dan is based. A naval aviator and USNA grad, he flew the 

P-3 Orion on active duty, and has flown a Gulfstream G100 (Astra) for the past 

thirteen years. With four grown children, they are now empty nesters and love 

spending time with their black Lab, Brody. They also enjoy traveling, boating, golfing, 

and all types of physical fitness. Whitney's first book, Astra The Lonely Airplane was 

one of only 6 picture books selected as a finalist in the highly esteemed 2022

NIEA (National Independence Excellence Awards).

Her newest book, Astra In Hollywood, the second book in the Astra The Lonely Airplane series

is the winner of the Best Overall Picture Book Category in the Hindi's Libraries 2024 

Females of Fiction Contest.

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