The ninth annual Princeton Children’s Book Festival is set to take place Sept. 20.
The festival is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Hinds Plaza and in Princeton Public Library’s Community Room, 65 Witherspoon St., Princeton.
More than 80 authors and illustrators in children’s literature are set to participate in the festival, one of the largest of its kind on the East Coast. During the festival, young readers can interact with the people behind their favorite books who will talk about and sign copies of their works.
Author and illustrator Dan Yaccarino, created the poster announcing this year’s festival and will attend the event. In addition to writing and illustrating more than three dozen children’s books, Yaccariino is the creator and producer of the Nickelodeon series Oswald and Willa’s Wild Life and is the character designer behind The Backyardigans.
Also participating in this year’s festival will be 2014 Caldecott Medal-winner Brian Floca (Locomotive), 2014 Theodore Geisel Award-winner Greg Pizzoli (The Watermelon Seed), Coretta Scott King Award-winner Bryan Collier (Knock, Knock: My Father’s Dream for Me), Rita Williams Garcia (One Crazy Summer; P.S. Be Eleven), Pseudonymous Bosch (The Name of this Book is Secret), Bruce Coville (Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher), Tad Hills (Rocket the Dog series; Duck and Goose series), David Lubar (Warped and Creepy Tales series), Wendy Mass (Space Taxi series, 11 Birthdays series), Anne Rockwell (Apples and Pumpkins, Hey Charleston!) and Jon Scieszka (Stinky Cheese Man, Battle Bunny).
More information is online bookfestival.princetonlibrary.org.
