Seattle Book Fest 2009

Secret Garden Bookshop, has produced a fantastic line-up of local talent in the world of children’s literature for the Kids Stage at Book Fest 2009!

The offerings include:

• 29 authors and illustrators and 4 publishers representatives

• including Sara Anderson, Kevin Emerson, Martha Brockenbrough, Matthew Porter, Kathryn O. Galbraith, Bonny Becker, and Wendy Wahman, among many others

• doing 14 hours of readings, panels, games, giveaways and prizes, dancing, music, and a Halloween Parade for little ones

• in solos, duos, and panels on topics ranging from Beyond TWILIGHT, reading suggestions for the TWILIGHT Obsessed (for those 12 and up) to Fairy Wings and Horsey Things (for readers 3-8) to Getting Your Kids’ Book Published (for adults) to Beyond Forks, authors of locally set books for young adults on paranormal themes, with

• game breaks, including a MAD LIBS party each day, with fun and prizes, flying Pike Place Market fish, and a Grammar Bee for kids from 9-99.

DATE: Saturday and Sunday, 24-25 October 2009

TIME 10 – 6 both days

LOCATION: Columbia City Event Center
3528 S. Ferdinand
Seattle, WA 98118

Check the full weekend schedule at the Book Fest website.

*Secret Garden is a general independent bookshop, selling books for adults and everyone else, since 2000.