
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
