National Book Festival

Here's the list of children's and YA authors that are appearing at the National Book Festival this year. I would drive miles and miles just to hear Gantos.

Jerry Pinkney created this year's poster.

The festival is Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

BookTV usually carries the festival but they tend to go for the politicians or David McCullough types. Hopefully they will share their cameras with some of these wonderful writers.

Please, I can see Thomas Friedman or Andrea Mitchell on TV anytime.

Let's inspire the kids!



Children

Buzz Aldrin
Wendell Minor
David Baldacci
Doreen Cronin & Harry Bliss
Hilary Knight
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Laura Numeroff
Mary Pope Osborne & Will Osborne
Linda Sue Park
Gloria Jean Pinkney
Jerry Pinkney
Sandra Pinkney
WNBA

Teens & Children
Meg Cabot
Lynne Cheney
Sharon Creech
John Feinstein
Jack Gantos
Patricia Reilly Giff
Pat Mora
Walter Dean Myers
Dave Pelzer
René Saldaña
R.L. Stine