Meet Author Ambassador Dave Eggers on his whirlwind tour of San Diego independent bookstores during the 2025 San Diego Book Crawl! Dave Eggers is the author of many books, among them Newbery Medal winner The Eyes and the Impossible, The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, Heroes of the Frontier, A Hologram for the King, and What Is the What. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, a nonprofit, independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and The Believer and Illustoria magazines. He is also the co-founder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired over 70 similar organizations worldwide. He recently opened The International Library of Youth Writing in San Francisco, which celebrates the work of these youth writing centers. Eggers is winner of the American Book Award, the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Education, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the TED Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
About The Eyes and the Impossible: Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park’s elders, three ancient Bison. His friends—a seagull, a raccoon, a squirrel, and a pelican—work with him as the Assistant Eyes, observing the humans and other animals who share the park and making sure the Equilibrium is in balance.
But changes are afoot. More humans arrive in the park. A new building, containing mysterious and hypnotic rectangles, goes up. And then there are the goats—an actual boatload of goats—who appear, along with a shocking revelation that changes Johannes’s view of the world.
Lushly illustrated with old world paintings and new artwork from Caldecott honoree Shawn Harris, this story about friendship, beauty, liberation (and running very, very fast), will make readers of all ages see the world around them in a wholly new way.
