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Highlights for Adults...
Jane Hamilton | Laura Rider's Masterpiece
Sunday, April 19, Bank of America Main Stage
Acclaimed novelist Jane Hamilton is the author of the PEN/Hemingway Award winner The Book of Ruth and the New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Map of the World, both of which selected for Oprah's Book Club. The Washington Post chose her novel When Madeline Was Young as a Best Book of 2006. In her new book, Laura Rider's Masterpiece, Le Divorce meets The Love Letter as Hamilton concocts a comedic tale of sex, manipulation, and delusions of grandeur in small town America.
Fun for the Family...
David Wiesner | Flotsam
Saturday, April 18, Children's Story Hour Room
Three of David Wiesner's picture books became instant classics when they won the prestigious Caldecott Medal: Tuesday, The Three Pigs, and most recently, Flotsam, also a New York Times bestseller. He is only the second person in the award's history to win it three times! Illustrator of more than 20 award-winning books for young readers, Wiesner created the original artwork for the Free Library's inaugural Philadelphia Book Festival in 2007.
Trout Fishing in America
Saturday, April 18, Target Children's Stage
The long-standing musical partnership between bassist Keith Grimwood and guitarist Ezra Idlet, Trout Fishing in America is “some of the most lyrically creative, musically sophisticated, vocally muscular music-makers in the family music business,” according to the Los Angeles Times. They have been nominated four times for a Grammy Award, for their albums inFINity (2001), Merry Fishes to All (2004), My Best Day (2006), and most recently, Big Round World (2008). Trout Fishing is also the recipient of multiple Parent's Choice Awards and three National Indie Awards.
Featured Festival Exhibitors...
Philadelphia Museum of Art - Publisher of the Scholarly Books and Catalogues of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collections and the field of visual arts to a diverse audience as a source of delight, illumination, and lifelong learning. A new and interactive way for children and their parents to approach and appreciate the museum's collections, A is for Art Museum, by first-time authors Katy Friedland and Marla K. Shoemaker, is a “playful journey through the museum's collections... fun for kids and adults alike.” (Mainline)
Mayte Picco-Kline | Wholeness in Living: Kindling the Inner Light
Mayte Picco-Kline is an organizational psychologist dedicated to helping people reach their potential through finding inner peace. She has taught at the United Nations' University for Peace and at seminars worldwide. Her book, Wholeness in Living, offers guiding affirmations that celebrate life and the joy experienced when, as Picco-Kline says, “a receptive heart is filled with hope, peace, love, beauty, and understanding.”
Interested in exhibiting at the Festival? Click here! Deadline to register is Friday, March 6, 2009!
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On Saturday and Sunday, April 18 and 19, 2009, the Free Library hosted its third annual Free Library Festival. Drawing our largest crowd to date--estimated at 35,000!--the Festival presented more than 50 authors, performers, and programs, and 80 exhibitors at the Street Fair and Literary Marketplace. Thanks to our Festival Sponsors, the City of Philadelphia, and the Fairmount Park Commission, to the Free Library staff, and to our more than 200 dedicated Festival Volunteers for another fantastic fest! );)
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