The 5th Annual Savannah Children’s Book Festival will take place on Saturday, November 15th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Forsyth Park in Savannah, Georgia. Celebrate the joy of reading, the power of the written word and the magic of storytelling with children’s book authors and illustrators from around the country. The festival also features dozens of local authors, arts and crafts, food, a variety of entertainment, an international tent, costumed characters, a “teen scene” and more!
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When Marc Brown’s first son was born, he started telling him stories. One night the story was about an aardvark who disliked his nose. The aardvark was named Arthur, and that story became “Arthur’s Nose”. Now, more than 25 years later, Arthur is the star of a series of bestselling books. There are now almost 60 million Arthur books in print in the United States alone. What began as a simple family ritual soon grew into a full-time profession for...
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Donald Crews is a respected and award-winning author-illustrator of many celebrated children's picture books, including the Caldecott Honor Books “Freight Train” and “Truck”. Blending sparse text with innovative uses of color, space, and perspective, Crews' picture books depict such diverse subjects as language arts, counting, and various modes of modern transportation. His first book, “We Read: A to Z,” was noted as a sophisticated and fresh approach to illuminating language arts for children, while “Freight Train” and “Truck” showed his...
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Katie Davis is an author/illustrator whose combination of contagious silliness and bold, bright illustrations make her books a joy for both children and the adults who read to them. Her titles include “I Hate To Go to Bed,” which won a Children’s Book Council Children’s Choice Award, “Mabel the Tooth Fairy and How She Got Her Job,” “Kindergarten Rocks,” “Scared Stiff,” “Who Hoots?”, “Party Animals,” and “Who Hops?” which won a National Parenting Publications Award Honor and an Oppenheim Toy...
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Carmen Agra Deedy is an internationally-known children’s book author, storyteller and a frequent radio contributor. Born in Havana, Cuba, she immigrated to the United States with her family in 1963 after the Cuban Revolution and grew up in Decatur, Georgia. As a storyteller, Deedy has performed across the United States and Canada at venues including the Disney Institute, the New Victory Theater, the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Kennedy Center. Her storytelling festival appearances include the St. Louis Storytelling Festival,...
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Nancy Yi Fan spent the first part of her childhood in China, where she was born in 1993. When she was seven years old, Nancy moved with her parents to the United States and began to attend American schools. Birds, a lifelong passion of the author's, provided the inspiration for Swordbird, a New York Times bestseller. After awaking from a vivid dream about birds at war while simultaneously wrestling with her feelings about terrorism and September 11, Nancy wrote Swordbird...
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Charles Ghigna, a.k.a. “Father Goose,” is a poet, children’s author, and nationally syndicated feature writer who promotes children’s literature at schools, colleges, conferences, and libraries across the country. He is the author of more than 30 books of poetry for children and adults. His award-winning books and poems have been featured on ABC's “Good Morning America,” featured in the Scholastic Book Club, and received the Parents' Choice Book Award, SEBA Book Award, Helen Keller Literary Award, and the Alabama Library...
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Farrah Gray is the author of “Reallionaire” and “Get Real, Get Rich: Conquer the 7 Myths Blocking You from Success”. Gray’s book and his journey to succeed against the odds have become required reading and part of classroom study from elementary school to entrepreneurship departments on college and university campuses. Raised in the impoverished South side of Chicago, Gray defied the odds and became a self-made millionaire by the age of 14. In his rise from poverty to national and...
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Mike Thaler has produced many well known and loved characters in children's literature. While today’s parents might fondly remember “Letterman,” the character he created for the PBS “Electric Company” series, today’s children are fans for different reasons. He is the author of the “Black Lagoon” book series (20 books including “The Librarian from the Black Lagoon,” “The Teacher from the Black Lagoon,” “The Cafeteria Lady from the Black Lagoon,” “The Class Pet from the Black Lagoon,” and “The Bully from...
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Author/illustrator of “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus,” (for which he won the first of his three Caldecott Honor awards), creator of Cartoon Network’s “Sheep in the Big City”, and head writer of Cartoon Network’s “Codename: Kids Next Door”
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The Coastal Writers Circle of authors and illustrators will be situated around the Forsyth Fountain during the Savannah Children’s Book Festival and will perform in their adjacent tent. view list of authors and illustrators...
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