More than 40 Brooklyn-based authors and illustrators will gather at the Brooklyn Museum for the 18th Annual Brooklyn Children's Book Fair on Sunday, Nov. 10.
Featured participants include Sara Holly Ackerman, Selina Alko, Kristen Balouch, Artie Bennett, Matthew Burgess, Shaelyn McDaniel, Jaya Mehta and Kate Milford, according to a press release.
Attendees will also get the chance to mingle with notable creators such as James Yang, author of A Boy Named Isamu, and Bryan Reisberg and Alexandra Garyn, creators of Maxine Gets a Job, based on the popular social media star Maxine the Fluffy Corgi. Children will have the opportunity to interact with authors, listen to readings and watch live illustrations.
This year's fair is free and open to the public from 11:30am to 3:30pm. It will offer a diverse selection of storybooks, picture books, chapter books and graphic novels, covering a range of subjects from Ocean Parkway to Mars and Prince to poetry.
There will also be books in Hindi and Mandarin, catering to Brooklyn’s multicultural community.
The schedule of readings and presentations is as follows:
11:30 am Alexandra Garyn and Bryan Reisberg, Maxine Gets a Job
12 pm James Yang, A Boy Named Isamu
12:30 pm Arlène Casimir, Back Home: Story Time with My Father
1 pm Dan-ah Kim, The Train Home
1:30 pm Geshu Sugandh, My Heart Would Like Some More Please
2 pm Lauren Semmer, Poppy’s Family Patterns
2:30 pm John Patrick Green, InvestiGators
