Don’t miss one of the best family events of the season! Meet forty of your favorite Brooklyn authors and illustrators as they share their latest books. This free event features storybooks, picture books, chapter books, and graphic novels—fiction and nonfiction—for young book lovers from preschoolers to middle schoolers. Highlights include books in Mandarin and Hindi, plus a book celebrating Diwali, which falls on November 12 this year.

Throughout the day, children can chat with authors and illustrators, get books signed, enjoy a performance by The Band Books, and participate in book-related art projects. 

Participants include Adam Auerbach, Gabrielle Balkan, Artie Bennett, Molly Brooks, Keith Henry Brown, Matthew Burgess, Nina Crews, Pauline David-Sax, Karina Nicole González, John Patrick Green, Rasha Hamid, Michael Hearst, Kate Hosford, Melissa Iwai, Dan-ah Kim, Elliot Kreloff, Caron Levis, Laura Ljungkvist, Megan Madison, Denis Markell, Shaelyn McDaniel, Yona McDonough, Michele Wong McSween, Kate Milford, Yevgenia Nayberg, Christopher Silas Neal, Alexandra Penfold, Jessica Ralli, Isabel Roxas, Misa Saburi, Dan Saks, Julia Sarcone-Roach, Stephen Savage, Anu Sehgal, Lauren Semmer, Latia Smith, Joshua David Stein, Tara Nicole Whitaker, Katie Yamasaki, Hyewon Yum, and Gracey Zhang.

This event is free and open to the public.