Faces Tell Stories

The Waterville Public Library is pleased to announce author and illustrator Charlotte Agell’s Faces Tell Stories exhibition in the Carnegie Gallery on the fourth floor of the library. The show opened on Monday, April 1, 2024, will run through Friday, September 20, 2024, and features 96 portraits of women—some fictional, some real. Agell shares, “When I was a child, I used to think that we were all the same person. I was the ME version, and you the YOU. This project brings me back to that feeling.”

Award-winning author and illustrator Charlotte Agell was born in Norsjö, Sweden, but grew up mostly as an expatriate Swede in Montreal and Hong Kong. She moved to Maine to go to Bowdoin College and has been a happy camper here ever since. Charlotte is the author and illustrator of books for all ages of children, from the very youngest to teen novels, including the India McAllister books, the young adult novels Shift and Welcome Home or Someplace Like It, as well as several picture books, many of which she illustrated. Kirkus praised her book Maybe Tomorrow?, illustrated by Ana Ramirez, as “a poignant exploration of depression, grief, and friendship.” Maybe Tomorrow? won the Maine Literary Award for children’s literature and the Lupine Honor. Welcome Home and Someplace Like It was recently featured in the New York Times’ “Read Your Way Through Maine” column. Charlotte lives in Maine and was a longtime public school teacher who recently retired. charlotteagell.com.