CLOTHILDE EWING is vice president of strategic communications for The Chicago Community Trust. She served in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration as the chief of strategic planning and for President Obama’s re-election campaign, leading its constituency press efforts. Ewing started her career in TV news, first as an assignment editor and producer at CBS News before moving to The Oprah Winfrey Show as a producer. Her goal is for people to see more children of color in books that are not primarily defined by race or struggle but by belonging and joy. A graduate of Syracuse University’s SI Newhouse School of Communications, she currently lives in Chicago with her husband and two young children.

About STELLA AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING TOOTH

In this effervescent companion to the picture book Stella Keeps the Sun Up, Stella goes on the hunt to figure out who’s behind her friend’s missing tooth.

 Stella, her bestie Roger, and her second-best friend Owen are excited to go see Sue the T-rex at the museum, but when Owen has to leave early because he lost a tooth, Stella becomes determined to find it for him. How did he manage to lose a tooth? Was it stolen? Could the tooth fairy be responsible? Could Owen be…a dinosaur boy?

 Nothing will keep Stella from her investigation, even if she and Roger fear their own teeth could be stolen too. But the more Stella investigates, the more she realizes that perhaps this case is not as complicated as she thought.

Storytime Event - Clothilde Ewing reading STELLA AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING TOOTH