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From noted authors to award-winning illustrators to lively musicians, this year's Free Library Festival offers something for everyone in the family. Here are just some of the highlights:
Don't Miss the Storybook Parade!
Saturday, April 18 at 12:00 PM, Target Children's Stage
Grab a free noisemaker and cheer on your favorite storybook characters as they parade around the Free Library Festival Street Fair grounds. Characters will be introduced by Festival Sponsor 6abc's Tamala Edwards.
Highlights for Young Adults
Peter Lerangis | The 39 Clues: The Sword Thief
Saturday, April 18 at 1:00 PM, Target Children's Stage
Peter Lerangis, author of numerous books for children and young adults, contributes to the New York Times bestselling 39 Clues series with The Sword Thief, the third installment in the series. More info>>
John Green | Paper Towns
Nerdfighters unite!
Saturday, April 18 at 3:30 PM, Target Children's Stage
John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature. He is praised for his intelligent prose, "from hilarious, hyperintellectual trash talk and schtick, to complex philosophizing, to devastating observation and truths" (School Library Journal). More info>>
Alexander Stadler | Julian Rodriguez
Sunday, April 19 at 2:00 PM, Story Hour Room
In his newest graphic novel, Philadelphian Alexander Stadler, chronicles the adventures of Julian Rodriguez, a courageous young boy sent to earth to study human life. More info>>
Highlights for Children
Susan Orlean | Lazy Little Loafers
Saturday, April 18 at 3:00 PM, Story Hour Room
Deemed "one of the wittiest new-baby-in-the-family books of recent years" by Publisher's Weekly, Susan Orlean's first children's book Lazy Little Loafers began as a humor piece for the New Yorker. More info>>
Shadra Strickland | Bird
Saturday, April 18 at 4:00 PM, Story Hour Room
Shadra Strickland won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and the 2009 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent for her work on her first children's picture book, Bird, about a young boy who uses drawing as a way to deal with his troubles. More info>>
Florence & Wendell Minor | If You Were a Penguin
Sunday, April 19 at 1:00 PM, Target Children's Stage
The first 100 attendees will receive a free copy of the book! A collaboration between illustrator Wendell Minor and his author wife Florence Minor, If You Were A Penguin is the 2009 Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child selection. More info>>
Music for the Family
Trout Fishing in America
Saturday, April 18 at 4:30 PM, Target Children's Stage
Trout Fishing in America, the long-standing musical partnership between bassist Keith Grimwood and guitarist Ezra Idlet, is a Grammy-nominated, Parents' Choice award-winning group for the whole family. Introduced by WXPN's Kathy O'Connell. More info>>
The Jimmies | Make Your Own Someday: Silly Songs for the Shorter Set
Sunday, April 19 at 2:30 PM, Target Children's Stage
Winner of the 2007 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award and the 2007 Parents' Choice Award, The Jimmies take being silly very seriously. More info>>
Baby Loves Salsa
Sunday, April 19 at 4:30 PM, Target Children's Stage
Part of the Baby Loves Music family, Baby Loves Salsa helps children learn Spanish while learning about and dancing to salsa music! More info>>
10,000 Books for Children
Please consider purchasing a book for the Free Library's 10,000 Books for Children Summer Reading book drive. Stop by the Children's Book World booth (#54) or the Joseph Fox Book Shop booth (#65) at the Free Library Festival to purchase and donate a much-needed book for the Library's Summer Reading program. Books can be dropped off at these purchase points as well as at the Library Clubhouse booth (#50). For drop off locations at the Festival, see the Festival site map.
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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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