Albany Book Festival
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Join us for the second annual Albany Book Festival—a celebration of authors, readers & books! The Albany Book Festival will feature bestselling & award-winning authors, book signings, a children’s room with authors and fun activities, how-to workshops for aspiring authors, an exhibitor floor with publishers & local authors, and much more!
Visit www.albanybookfestival.com for more information.
For a list of local authors/exhibitors at the festival, visit: https://www.albanybookfestival.com/local-authors-exhibitors
See below for children's events at the festival:
Children’s Yoga Activity with Susan Verde
10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m., Campus Center West Multi-Purpose Room
Susan Verde, a former elementary school teacher, is the author of the “I Am” series, all illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds, including I am Yoga (2005), I Am Love: A Book of Compassion (2019), I Am Human: A Book of Empathy (2018), and I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness (2017). Her other books include You and Me (2015), The Water Princess (2016), Rock ’n’ Roll Soul, (2018), illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, and Unstoppable Me (2019).
Children’s Open Mic Reading
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., Campus Center West Multi-Purpose Room
Come hear featured young writers from Skribblers Magazine and the Capital District Writing Project as they share their writing.
Young Adult Panel
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., Campus Center West Boardroom
L.M. Elliott was a Washington-based magazine journalist before becoming a New York Times bestselling novelist. Her most recent historical novel for Young Adults is Hamilton and Peggy: A Revolutionary Friendship, an in-depth portrait of the youngest of the Schuyler sister trio made famous in Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical “Hamilton.”
Stephanie Jimenez, a Fulbright recipient, has published fiction and non-fiction in the Guardian, O! the Oprah Magazine, Joyland Magazine, The New York Times, and more. They Could Have Named Her Anything (2019) is her debut novel.
Hollis Seamon, a professor who has taught writing at The College of Saint Rose and Fairfield University, wrote the YA novel Somebody Up There Hates You (2013) about a 17-year-old boy who is in hospice care. She is the author of the short story collections Corporeality (2013) and Body Work (2000) and the mystery novel Flesh (2005).
Party: A Mystery: Jamaica Kincaid & illustrator Ricardo Cortés
12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m., Campus Center West Auditorium
Jamaica Kincaid’s story "Party" first appeared as a short story in The New Yorker in 1980 and has been adapted into a beautifully illustrated story of three girls caught up in the most curious of mysteries.
Jamaica Kincaid is the Antiguan-born author of the all-time classic A Small Place (1988), a reflection on colonialism and its effects on her home island. Kincaid’s other books include Annie John, Lucy, and Mr. Potter. A staff writer for The New Yorker for 20 years, her columns have been collected in the volume Talk Stories (2001).
Ricardo Cortés is the author and illustrator of Sea Creatures from the Sky, It’s Just a Plant, and A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola. He is also the illustrator of the New York Times best-selling classic for parents about putting their children to bed, Go the F--k to Sleep, as well as the G-rated follow-up, Seriously, Just Go to Sleep.
Allison Pataki & Nelly Takes New York
1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., Campus Center West Multi-Purpose Room
Allison Pataki, historical fiction novelist and memoirist, is the author of the children’s book, Nelly Takes New York: A Little Girl's Adventures in the Big Apple.
Ricardo Cortes & Sea Creatures from the Sky
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m., Campus Center West Multi-Purpose Room
Ricardo Cortés is the author and illustrator of Sea Creatures from the Sky, a touching, beautifully illustrated story of a misunderstood shark, and its quest to understand the world both above and below the sea. He is also the author/illustrator of It’s Just a Plant, and A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola as well as illustrator of the New York Times best-selling classic for parents about putting their children to bed, Go the F--k to Sleep, as well as the G-rated follow-up, Seriously, Just Go to Sleep.
Wayetu Moore on One Moore Book
3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m., Campus Center West Multi-Purpose Room
Bestselling novelist Wayetu Moore is the founder of One Moore Book, a non-profit organization that encourages reading among children of countries with low literacy rates and underrepresented cultures by publishing culturally relevant books that speak to their truths, and by creating bookstores and reading corners that serve their communities.
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