The nation’s best children’s authors and illustrators read and discuss their latest works for children and young adults.
Take a look below at the 2011 schedule. This year's lineup is coming soon!
Stage: West Park
5:30PM
New York Times bestselling author of Going Bovine and the acclaimed Gemma Doyle trilogy presents her new novel about a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island.
Event Details6:30PM
Five writers of Teen Lit discuss writing, high school, romance, friendship and growing up. With Sarah Mlynowski, Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn't Have), Maryrose Wood, The Poison Diaries, Susane Colasanti, So Much Closer, Joanna Pearson, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills and E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks.
Event Details12PM
Sam McBratney is the illustrator of the modern classic Guess How Much I Love You, a copy of which sells every 21.6 seconds.
Event Details12:30PM
Patrick McDonnell is best known as the creator of the MUTTS cartoons. His new book Me. . . Jane is the heartwarming tale of the young Jane Goodall and her dreams of working with animals.
Event Details1PM
David Wiesner has won three Caldecott medals and 2 Caldecott Honors. His newest picture book Art & Max is a wild and funny look at the creative process.
Event Details1:30PM
Renowned illustrator Kadir Nelson presents his beautifully illustrated history of African Americans and America.
Event Details2PM
Famed cartoonist Jules Feiffer and his daughter Kate present their new collaboration about a child's optimism and a father's loving patience.
Event Details2:30PM
Author/Illustrator Susan Fillion will speak about her new children's book about the Cone sisters and their amazing art collection that altered the world of art.
Event Details3PM
Award-winning comic book artist Eric Wight introduces the third book in the Frankie Pickle series in which Frankie faces one of his most difficult challenges yet. . . his math quiz.
Event Details3:30PM
When Zita's best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult, she leaps to the rescue and becomes an unwitting intergalactic hero. Zita the Spacegirl is a fun, captivating tale of friendship and redemption from Flight veteran Ben Hatke.
Event Details4PM
Rachel Renee Russell, The Dork Diaries 3: Tales From a Not-So-Talented Popstar, is is an attorney who prefers writing tween books to legal briefs. (Mainly because books are a lot more fun and pajamas and bunny slippers aren't allowed in court.) Her Dork Diaries Series are New York Times bestsellers. She is joined in conversation by Tom Angleberger, Darth Paper Strikes Back. Angleberger's Strange Case of Origami Yoda was hailed as “delightful” by the New York Times and called “the most original novel of the year” by the Boston Globe. He is also the author of Horton Halfpott.
Event Details5PM
With Troy Howell, The Dragon of Cripple Creek, Maryrose Wood, The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Hidden Gallery, Emily Jenkins, Invisible Inkling, Rachel Wildavsky, The Secret of Rover and Elissa Brent Weissman, Nerd Camp.
Event Details6:30PM
Kelly Link and Gavin Grant lead a discussion about the Steampunk genre with Michael Kirby and Eden Unger-Bowditch. Come find out what Steampunk is all about!
Event Details12PM
In her latest book, noted author-illustrator Susan Stockdale introduces young readers to both exotic and familiar birds in energetic rhyming text with boldly-colored paintings of the birds depicted in their natural habitats.
Event Details12:30PM
Loren Long is the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of the re-creation of The Little Engine That Could. His picture book Otis is a tale about the power of friendship and persever in the tradition of classics like Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and The Story of Ferdinand.
Event Details1PM
In this explosive new 39 Clues series, Cahills across the globe have been kidnapped by a new enemy and it’s up to Amy and Dan to save them. In addition to writing several of the 39 Clues novels, Gordon Korman is the author of Framed, Zoobreak, Swindle, and Son of the Mob, as well as the On the Run series and the Island, Everest, Dive, and Kidnapped trilogies.
Event Details1:30PM
In this funny new book from the bestselling children's illustrator Harry Bliss, school proves to be an unexpected place for Bailey to do all sorts of things he loves: reading, fetching, painting, digging, singing - and making friends!
Event Details2PM
With stunning artwork and a rhyming text, the illustrator of the Mercy Watson books tells a tale of human-animal connection full of humor and heart.
Event Details2:30PM
Pseudonymous Bosch is the anonymous pseudonymous author of the Secret Series. Not much is known about him other than that he has a passionate love of chocolate and cheese and an equally passionate hatred of mayonnaise, and that his books are New York Times bestsellers.
Event Details3PM
Todd Parr is the author of more than thirty books for children, including the New York Times bestselling The I LOVE YOU Book.
Event Details3:30PM
Lisa McCue has illustrated more than 150 picture books. Quiet Bunny and Noisy Puppy is the third book in the Quiet Bunny series which McCue both writes and illustrates.
Event Details4PM
With twenty beautiful, bold color illustrations and haiku poetry for text, this book describes life in a tropical fish tank and explores the concept of living together peacefully and happily.
Event Details4:30PM
In the form of a diary, this tale of a slave girl's escape through the underground railroad includes folk tales and Bible stories important to the time period.
Event Details5PM
Kevin O'Malley has turned the fable of The Tortoise and The Hare into a pun-filled laugh (or groan)-out-loud adventure. Kevin does one heck of a funny and energetic author performance! Join him as he takes you through a contemporary retelling of time weary fairy tales.
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