BookFest @ Bank Street 2024 | November 2, 2024
Program
BookFest @ Bank Street is presented in Partnership with KidLit TV.
Theme
“Why Children’s Books Matter More than Ever”
Introduction
Cynthia Weill, Director, Center for Children’s Literature, Bank Street College of Education
Remembering Robie Harris
- Ben Harris, Clinical Psychologist
- Elizabeth Levy, Witch Hunt: The Cold War, Joe McCarthy, and the Red Scare
- Lois Lowry, Number the Stars, The Giver
- Hilary Van Dusen, editor at Candlewick Press
- Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
- Amy Hest, Big Bear and Little Bear Go Fishing
- Moderator: Fatima Shaik, PEN America, Children and Young Adults Book Committee
New York City Middle-Grade Authors Write About New York
- Olugbemisola Rhuday Perkovich, Operation Sisterhood
- Emma Otheguy, Sofia Acosta Makes a Scene
- Carlos Hernandez, Strange Academy: The Deadly Field Trip
- Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers Series
- Moderator: Shelley Diaz, School Library Journal
Communication and Collaboration: 6 Brilliant Book Creators Cheerfully Co-Exist in a Brooklyn Workspace
- Sophie Blackall, Ahoy!
- Brian Floca, With Dad
- Doug Salati, Hot Dog
- Johnny Marciano, The 66th Rebirth of Frankie Caridi #1
- Dasha Tolstikova, The Bad Chair
- Rowboat Watkins, Go, Go Guys
- Moderator: Roxie Munro, ABCity
Keynote
Lois Lowry is the author of more than forty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling Giver Quartet and the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver.
Book Signing
Books provided by Books of Wonder and music by Bill Wurtzel Jazz.
