08_Book_Festival

On Saturday, September 27, 2008, I attended the National Book Festival on The Mall in Washington, D.C. It was an amazing event. Wonderful authors. Wonderful sponsors. A well spent day! The children's authors who spoke that day were:

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 * [|Tiki Barber]
 * [|Jan Brett]
 * [|Marc Brown]
 * [|Laura Bush] & [|Jenna Bush]
 * [|David A. Carter]
 * [|Doreen Cronin]
 * [|Betsy Lewin]
 * [|Kadir Nelson]
 * [|Doreen Rappaport]
 * [|David Shannon]
 * [|Judy Sierra]
 * [|Dionne Warwick]
 * [|Mary Brigid Barrett]
 * [|Joseph Bruchac]
 * [|Sharon M. Draper]
 * [|Neil Gaiman]
 * [|Steven Kellogg]
 * [|Katherine Paterson]
 * [|Andrea Davis Pinkney]
 * [|Matthew Reinhart]
 * [|Robert Sabuda]
 * [|Jon Scieszka]
 * [|Charles R. Smith, Jr.]
 * [|R. L. Stine]
 * [|Judith Viorst]

Visit the official website for podcasts. [|bookfest website]

Check out my pictures from the day. My favorite author, Jan Brett, was the illustrator of the beautiful National Book Festival Poster. She was invited to the white house. Here is a piece of Laura Bush's speech. "We'll start this morning by hearing from two of our talented authors: Jan Brett, who writes and illustrates, for children. Jan is the artist for this year's wonderful National Book Festival poster. I hope you all have all seen it. (Applause.) Jan's poster has all the state animals and birds in a parade toward the Capitol. So thank you, Jan, for it's a beautiful poster." [|Download Jan's White House Speech]

The beautiful work of Jan Brett