COEUR d’ALENE — Children and their families are invited to hear award-winning author Annie Winston read from her "Heroical Storicals," a time-travel historical junior fiction series, on Saturday from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Seagraves Children’s Library of the Coeur d'Alene Public Library.

She will also be reading from "Daniel Boone and the Battle of Boonesborough," providing her best creative writing tips and talking about her journey as an author.

In addition to free coloring pages and bookmarks, there will also be a drawing to win a free book and author talk at the winner’s elementary school.

Winston will also discuss her upcoming releases. "Ivan Von Penguinsky" is a story about a reading-challenged penguin. In "Bully Buster Journal: Digging Deeper," a bully-bedraggled boy discovers an ancient bully-busting secret. "Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad" will be the second book in the "Heroical Storicals" series.

The author is also the founder of Jazzed About Reading, a nonprofit geared to help children develop a love of reading.

On Saturday, May 18, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Eazel Cai from the Confucius Institute at the University of Idaho returns to the library to teach children ages 8 to 12 traditional Chinese brush painting. Each child will paint a panda to take home.

Weekly children’s programs at the library continue through May 18 and include:

- Sensory Story Time: Mondays, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., for children 2 to 6 with developmental disabilities or sensory processing disorders, and their caregivers, provides a welcoming environment to nurture a love of reading and enhance literacy skills;

- Book Babies Lapsit: Tuesdays, 10:15 a.m. and Fridays, 10:30-11 a.m., for children ages newborn to 2 accompanied by a parent or adult caregiver;

- Toddler Time Music and Motion: Tuesdays, 11-11:30 a.m., fun, songs, movement, and a story for 2- and 3-year-olds;

- Stay and Play: Tuesdays, 11:30 a.m., after Toddler Time and Fridays, 11-11:30 a.m. after Book Babies, families can stay for fun and socializing;

- Family Storytime: Tuesdays, 4 p.m., stories and a craft for the whole family;

- Lake City LEGO Club: Tuesdays, 4 p.m., at the Lake City Public Library in the high school on Ramsey Road;

- Preschool Storytime: Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m., stories and a craft geared to ages 3 to 5;

- Code Club/Minecraft Club: Wednesday, 4 p.m., learn coding basics with robots and video games, for ages 7 to 12;

- LEGO Club: Thursdays, 4 p.m., free play with the library’s huge collection of LEGOs, generally for ages 5 to 11.