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Festival Author Booklist

Children

  • Mary Brigid Barrett — Shoebox Sam; Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out; The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Harry Bliss — Bailey
  • Calef Brown — Boy Wonders; The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Susan Cooper — The Dark is Rising Series (Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark is Rising, Greenwich, The Grey King, Silver on the Tree); The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Carmen Agra Deedy — The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale
  • Tomie de Paola — Strega Nona
  • Chris Van Dusen — King Hugos Huge Ego; The Circus Ship Big Book; The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Jack Gantos — Dead End in Norvelt; The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Joe Hayes — The Coyote Under the Table
  • William Joyce — The Man in the Moon
  • Gregory Maguire — Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years; Wicked; Son of a Witch; A Lion Among Men; The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Dorie McCullough Lawson — Tex; Posterity: Letters from Great Americans to Their Children
  • John Bemelmans Marciano — Madeline at the White House; Madeline and Her Dog
  • Sam McBratney — Guess How Much I Love You (pop-up edition)
  • John McCutcheon — Christmas in the Trenches
  • Julianne Moore — Freckleface Strawberry: Best Friends Forever

Teen

  • Cassandra Clare — City of Fallen Angels (Mortal Instruments Series #4); City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
  • Susan Cooper — The Dark is Rising Series (Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark is Rising, Greenwich, The Grey King, Silver on the Tree); The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Sarah Dessen — What Happened to Goodbye
  • Jack Gantos — Dead End in Norvelt; The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Uma Krishnaswami — The Grand Plan to Fix Everything
  • Gordon Korman — Titanic No. 3: S.O.S.; The Medusa Plot (The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Series #1)
  • Patricia McKissack — Cyborg (The Clone Codes #2); The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Shelia Moses — Joseph’s Grace
  • Kadir Nelson — Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
  • Katherine Paterson — The Flint Heart; Brother Sun, Sister Moon
  • Gary Schmidt — Okay for Now
  • Brian Selznick — Wonderstruck
  • Rita Williams-Garcia — One Crazy Summer

Poster Artist

  • John J. Muth — Zen Ghosts

Children

  • Mary Brigid Barrett — Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out, The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Timothy Basil Ering — Snook Alone, The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Jules Feiffer — The Odious Ogre
  • Mem Fox — Let’s Count Goats
  • Margaret Patterson Haddix — Claim to Fame
  • Norman Juster — The Odious Ogre
  • Pat Mora — Book Fiesta! Celebrate Children’s Day/Book Day
  • Marilyn Nelson — Snook Alone
  • Linda Sue Park — The 39 Clues: Book 9 - Storm Warning, The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Jerry Pinkney — Three Little Kittens
  • James Ransome — Gunner: Football Hero, The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Judith Viorst — Lulu and the Brontosaurus
  • Rosemary Wells — Max and Ruby’s Bedtime Book

Teen

  • M.T. Anderson — The Suburb Beyond the Stars, The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Michael Buckley — The Sisters Grimm Book Eight: The Inside Story; N.E.R.D.S. Book Two: M is for Mama’s Boy
  • Suzanne Collins — The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
  • Margarita Engle — The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette’s Journey to Cuba
  • Phillip M. Hoose — Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
  • Brad Meltzer — Heroes for My Son
  • Katherine Paterson — The Day of the Pelican, The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
  • Jane Smiley — The Georges and the Jewels
  • Jeff Smith — Bone: Tall Tales
  • Rebecca Stead — When You Reach Me

Children

  • Holly Black — The Wyrm King
  • Kate DiCamillo — The Magician’s Elephant
  • Tony DiTerlizzi — The Wyrm King, Kenny and the Dragon
  • Nikki Grimes — Rich: A Dyamonde Daniel Book, Voices of Christmas and Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel
  • Shannon Hale — Forest Born
  • Craig Hatkoff — Winter’s Tale: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim
  • Steven Kellogg — Pied Piper’s Magic
  • Lois Lowry — Crow Call
  • Megan McDonald — The Sisters Club: The Rule of Three
  • Charles Santore — The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Little Mermaid: From the Story by Hans Christian Andersen
  • Jon Scieszka — Robot Zot!
  • David Shannon — Robot Zot!
  • Mo Willems — Pigs Make Me Sneeze! (An Elephant & Piggie Book) and Big Frog Can’t Fit In

Teens & Children

  • Judy Blume — Friend or Fiend? With the Pain & the Great One
  • Patrick Carman — 39 Clues: The Black Circle, Skeleton Creek, Ghost in the Machine
  • Sharon Creech — The Unfinished Angel
  • Carmen Agra Deedy — 14 Cows for America
  • Paula Deen — Paula Deen’s Cookbook for the Lunchbox Set, Paula Deen’s My First Cookbook, The Deen Family Cookbook
  • Shannon Hale — Forest Born
  • Liz Kessler — Emily Windsnap’s Friendship Book, Philippa Fisher and the Dreammaker’s Daughter
  • Jeff Kinney — Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
  • Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah — 14 Cows for America
  • Kadir Nelson — Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
  • James Patterson — Daniel X: Watch the Skies
  • Jerry Pinkney — The Lion and the Mouse
  • Rick Riordan — The Last Olympian
  • Sharon Robinson — Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
  • James L. Swanson — Chasing Lincoln's Killer
  • Jacqueline Woodson — Peace, Locomotion

Children

  • Tiki Barber — Kickoff!!, Go Long!
  • Jan Brett — Gingerbread Friends, Night Before Christmas (10th anniversary edition)
  • Marc Brown — Born to Read, Wild About Books
  • David A. Carter — The Big Bug Book: A Pop-up Celebration, Yellow Square
  • Doreen Cronin — Thump, Quack, Moo: A Wacky Adventure; Duck for President
  • Bob Lanier (NBA/WNBA program) — Hey L’il D! series
  • Betsy Lewin — Thump, Quack, Moo: A Wacky Adventure; Duck for President
  • Kadir Nelson — Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, We Are the Ship: The Story of the Negro League Baseball
  • Doreen Rappaport — Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • David Shannon — Too Many Toys
  • Judy Sierra — Born to Read, Wild About Books
  • Dionne Warwick — Say a Little Prayer

Teens & Children

  • Mary Brigid Barrett — Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
  • Joseph Bruchac — March Toward the Thunder
  • Sharon M. Draper — November Blues, Copper Sun
  • Neil Gaiman — The Graveyard Book, The Dangerous Alphabet
  • Steven Kellogg — Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
  • Katherine Paterson — Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
  • Andrea Davis Pinkney — Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
  • Matthew Reinhart — Fairies and Other Mythological Creatures (from the Encyclopedia Mythological series)
  • Robert Sabuda — Fairies and Other Mythological Creatures (from the Encyclopedia Mythological series)
  • Jon Scieszka — Jon Scieszka's Trucktown series, Alice in Wonderland
  • Charles R. Smith, Jr. — Chameleon, Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali
  • R. L. Stine — The Scream of the Haunted Mask and Dr. Maniac v. Robby Schwartz (from the Horrorland series)
  • Judith Viorst — Nobody Here but Me

Children

  • María Celeste Arrarás — The Magic Cane
  • Ashley Bryan and Jan Spivey Gilchrist — My America
  • Carmen Agra Deedy — Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
  • Mercer Mayer — The Bravest Knight and There's a Nightmare in My Closet
  • Megan McDonald — Judy Moody & Stink: The Holly Joliday
  • Judy Schachner — Skippyjon Jones and the Big Bones
  • Rosemary Wells — Red Moon at Sharpsburg and Max's ABCs
  • David Wiesner — Flotsam
  • Jacqueline Wilson — Candyfloss

Teens & Children

  • M.T. Anderson — The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1
  • Holly Black — Ironside
  • Jennifer L. Holm — Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf
  • Gail Carson Levine — Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand
  • Patricia MacLachlan — Edward's Eyes
  • Patricia McCormick — Sold
  • Shelia P. Moses — The Baptism
  • Cynthia Leitich Smith — Tantalize
  • Gene Luen Yang — American Born Chinese