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The Playground - Week 38

Welcome to The Playground, a place for Vancouver families. Every Wednesday I post a roundup of upcoming family-friendly events and activities.

Welcome to The Playground, a place for Vancouver families. Every Wednesday I post a roundup of upcoming family-friendly events and activities. I’m always on the lookout for fun stuff to do, so if there’s something happening that you think I should know about, contact me.

In The Playground for the week of February 16-22: Raina Telgemeier at Kidsbooks, the best (first) kids book club at Chapters and the Globetrotters.

This Thursday evening at 7PM, illustrator Raina Telgemeier will be at Kidsbooks on West Broadway. Her work can be seen in her autobiographical book Smile and the graphic novel version of The Baby-sitters Club series. Tickets are $5.

This Sunday, from 2-3PM, Chapters on Robson is hosting the best (first) kids book club in the Indigokids section of the bookstore. It's open to all, but they will be choosing books from their 9-12 section, the little ones may not get as much out of it. The first book they'll be discussing is Zombiekins by Kevin Bolger.

Finally, we have the Harlem Globetrotters at Rogers Arena on Friday at 7:00. The basketball/comedy troupe is on their "4 Times the Fun" tour and this is their only Vancouver stop. I don't know if they still hold an esteemed place in the imagination of children, but when I was a kid, seeing the Globetrotters was a rite of passage. Tickets start at $32.

See you next week.