Meet & Greet with Valerie Tripp

In conjunction with *An American Colonial Revival Christmas exhibit reserve your free tickets to attend the special event, Meet & Greet with Valerie Tripp, the award winning author of the American Girl doll books Felicity, Josefina, Samantha, Kit, Molly, and Maryellen.  Bring a book or a treasured keepsake that you would like signed by the author.  Please limit your items to two per person and make your greeting brief allowing time for other visitors (15 per ½ hour time slots)

FREE Reservation timed ticket required, limit 2 per person.  Please arrive 10 minutes before your scheduled time.

Tented event on the front lawn of the National Historic Landmark Corbit-Sharp House, 1774

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Valerie Tripp, Author

Peggy Sanderson Hughes and her Daughter, 1788, Charles Willson Peale, Detroit Institute of Arts

About the Author

Valerie Tripp (Yale ’73; Harvard GSE ’82) is the award-winning author of American Girl books, plays, and short stories about Felicity, Josefina, Samantha, Kit, Molly, and Maryellen, as well as the Welliewisher and Hopscotch Hill School series.  Tripp also wrote a STEM series for National Geographic Kids and is the executive editor of the Boys Camp series.  She has adapted classics for Sterling Publishers and has written numerous leveled readers, songs, stories, nonfiction essays, skills book pages, poems, and plays for educational publishers.  Tripp has spoken at the Smithsonian, The New York Historical Society, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, The Daughters of the American Revolution Annual Luncheon, Yale University, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and The Library of Congress, in addition to countless schools, libraries, writer’s groups, book stores, scout troops, and organizations that encourage young women such as Girls on the Run and Yes, She Can.