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Highlights for Adults
Dara Torres | Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life
Sunday, April 19, Bank of America Main Stage
The first American swimmer to compete in five Olympic Games, Dara Torres has set three world records and won 12 Olympic medals, including four gold medals. Returning to the Games for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Torres--at age 41--brought home three silver medals. In Age is Just a Number, Torres speaks frankly about diving in for her comeback as an older athlete in a younger athlete's game, working through pain, seizing the moment, and never giving up.
Fun for the Family
Father Goose
Saturday, April 18, Target Children's Stage
Blending folktale, reggae, rap, and calypso pop, Jamaican-born Father Goose sings music suited for a lively, all-ages dance party inspired by his childhood in Jamaica. Before going solo, he was featured on several of Dan Zanes and Friends Grammy Award-winning children's albums. School Library Journal describes his album, It's a Bam Bam Diddly!, as "seven joyful songs from several West Indies islands [that] are performed with enthusiasm and terrific musicianship."
Exhibitor Spotlight
The Free Library Festival's Street Fair & Literary Marketplace is the place for readers to discover new writers and explore what's new in the literary world! Exhibitors! The deadline to register is TODAY! For more information and the application, click here.
Camino Books, Inc. -Regional Books without Borders
Founded in 1987 for the purpose of publishing quality nonfiction books of regional interest to people in the Middle Atlantic states, Camino Books has a variety of titles about cooking, travel, gardening, and history, but they also publish biographies, local reference books, and books concerning parenting and health issues. New titles include Mobfiles by George Anastasia, Fightin' Phils by Rich Westcott, and Champions!, a look back at the Phillies' 2008 winning season by the staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News.
Walk a Crooked Mile Books - Voted Best Bookstore of the Northwest 2006, 2007, 2008
Walk a Crooked Mile Books, located in the 1882 Mount Airy Train Station on the R7 Line, at Devon and Gowen Streets in Mt. Airy, has 80,000 used books from $1, kids paperbacks to rare and collectible books in all subject areas. The largest used book store in the area, Walk a Crooked Mile Books has been voted Best of the Northwest the last three years running. They have exhibited at the Festival for the last three years and love the chance to show off stock and meet new customers. To take a virtual tour of the store, visit youtube.com/walkacrookedmilebook.
Beatrice Chiccarine & Jan Whittaker - WolfWillBuildforFood.com, Everyone is Different (Saturday only)
How easily can a child connect to a dangerous predator online? A modern retelling of the story of the three little pigs, WolfWillBuildForFood.com is a colorful picture book with a familiar storyline that provides a cautionary lesson for children ages 6-10 on posting private information online. Co-authors Beatrice Chiccarine and Jan Whittaker are both elementary level teachers, each with more than 20 years of experience in classrooms.
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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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