Does your kiddo love dogs and science? Bring them to meet local author Betsy Ellor to celebrate the launch of her latest picture book, My Dog is Not a Scientist! Enjoy a story time, activities, and more! It’ll be paw-some to say the last.

My Dog is Not a Scientist is a humorous, endearing story about a passionate, young scientist who is determined to achieve her goal–no matter what!

Yara is out to prove that she’s the greatest scientist in town!

Her annoying neighbor Eddie always wins the Science Fair, but this year is going to be HER year. Like every good scientist, Yara starts with a question, makes observations, and comes up with a hypothesis . . . but each time she starts an experiment, her dog, Renzo, ruins it!

Could Renzo be up to something more than making trouble?

From Betsy Ellor and Luisa Vera comes a humorous, endearing story about a passionate, young scientist who is determined to achieve her goal–no matter what!

Betsy Ellor lives in a home filled with kid shenanigans, canine chaos and creative projects run wild. Her 2021 anthology Heroic Care: 35 Writers & Artists Show What It Means To Care reached the top 30 on Amazon, and her family musical Sara Crewe has been performed across the US. Midwest-born, Betsy started as a playwright, earning a degree in Creative Writing from Ball State University before shifting her focus to novels and picture books. Betsy works as an interior architect, designing offices, condos, restaurants, science labs, hospitals, and more. This explains her uniquely visual voice and her passion for stories that keep creative thinking at the heart of scientific exploration. Betsy lives near the beach in Massachusetts with her son and dog (aka the bringers of chaos). In her free time, Betsy loves lifting up her creative community. Her author interviews have been featured in Spine Magazine and she ran the writers market segment of The Creative Collective for years. She is an active member of SCBWI and 12 x 12 as well as an adjunct professor at Endicott College. She spends way too much time on the computer but frequently escapes for hiking, biking, paddle boarding, and beach time.