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Virtual Fourteenth Annual Brooklyn Children's Book Fair

Watch online as your favorite Brooklyn authors and illustrators share their books during the annual Brooklyn Children's Book Fair.

Nina Crews. (Detail) Brooklyn Blossoms, 2020
Nina Crews. (Detail) Brooklyn Blossoms, 2020 (Nina Crews)

Saturday, November 14, 2020

11 am–2 pm
Online
Watch online as your favorite Brooklyn authors and illustrators share their books during the annual Brooklyn Children's Book Fair. This free event features six author readings and illustrator presentations, with short presentations by more than thirty-five creators of storybooks, picture books, and graphic novels—including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—for book lovers from preschool through the middle grades.
Schedule:

  • 11 am Reading: Selina Alko, One Golden Rule at School: A Counting Book
  • 11:30 am Illustrator presentation: Melissa Iwai, Soup Day
  • 12 pm Reading: Caron Levis, This Way, Charlie
  • 12:30 pm Illustrator presentation: Stephen Savage, The Babysitter from Another Planet
  • 1 pm Reading: Vashti Harrison, Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World
  • 1:30 pm Illustrator presentation: Jon Burgerman, Everybody Has a Body

Participants include Selina Alko, Adam Auerbach, Artie Bennett, Keith Henry Brown, Michael Buckley, Jon Burgerman, Matthew Burgess, Catia Chien, Nina Crews, b.b. cronin, John Patrick Green, Abby Hanlon, Vashti Harrison, Michael Hearst, Tad Hills, Kate Hosford, Melissa Iwai, Caron Levis, Laura Ljungkvist, Torrey Maldonado, Denis Markell, Yona McDonough, Aaron Meshon, Kate Milford, Sharee Miller, Lorraine Nam, Yevgenia Nayberg, Michael Northrop, Megan Reid, Julia Sarcone-Roach, Hannah Salyer, Louella San Juan, Stephen Savage, Amy Schwartz, Carolyn Sloan, Hannah Stark, Lesley Ware, Joohee Yoon, and Hyewon Yum.
This online program is free, but registration is required. Once you’ve registered, you’ll receive a secure Zoom link and password by email.
When you shop online for Book Fair books from November 14 to December 31, 2020, each purchase includes a signed bookplate and freebies.

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