Dive into some great books at the 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival. Kid-friendly programming abounds during Children's Day on Saturday, September 28.

The Children’s Day (Saturday, September 28) lineup features a fabulous lineup of talented children’s authors, including: Ruth Chan, C.G. Esperanza, R.L. Stine, Steven Weinberg and many more! Listen to readings and join workshops, book signings, art projects, and more with your favorite authors and illustrators!  

BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL 2024 CHILDREN’S DAY SCHEDULE

 Picture Book Stage
Join award-winning and beloved children’s book authors at the Picture Book Stage as they read, perform, draw, and bring their books to life.

10:30am Bess Kalb - Buffalo Fluffalo
11am Mike Lowery - Pizza Shark: A Fin-tastic Feast
11:30am Carlos Matias - Emergency Quarters
12pm Raj Haldar - This Book Is Banned
12:30pm Lian Cho - Oh, Olive! 
1pm Denise Rosario Adusei - Cesaria Feels the Beat
1:30pm Cece Bell - Animal Albums from A to Z
2pm Maris Pasquale Doran - Piper Chen Sings
2:30pm Brian Yanish and Stacy Ebert - Sweet and Sour

Young Readers Stage
Kids ages 6 to 11 can hear their favorite authors talk about books and about being an author, watch illustrators in action, and everything in between. Authors will sign their books at the Lofty Pigeon booth.

12pm Adventures Close to Home
Make a new furry feline friend in Hilda Eunice Burgos' Bodega Cats: Picture Purrfect, discover Afro-Caribbean magic in Tracey Baptiste's Moko Magic: Carnival Chaos, and solve the mystery of a missing neighbor with a young podcaster turned sleuth in Sarvenaz Tash's The Queen of Ocean Parkway. In moderator Rob Cameron's Daydreamer, reality and fantasy collide through one boy's power of imagination.

1pm Mad Libs: Graphic Novel Edition! 
Two talented author-illustrators bring kids' Mad Libs suggestions to life! In true "Mad Libs" style, the audience will be prompted to "fill in the blank" and watch as Booki Vivat (Meet Me On Mercer Street) and Gale Galligan (Freestyle) draw audience suggestions into their graphic novels. With help from hosts Dan Brozo and Dizzy Doom (Digital Lizards of Doom), help create the silliest story possible!

2pm Are You Smarter than an Author? 
An interactive quiz game show! Perfect for kids, tweens, and adults! Test your science and mythology trivia knowledge against middle-grade novelists, including George O’Connor (Asgardians: Odin), Deeba Zargarpur (Farrah Noorzad and the Ring of Fate), Jorge Cham (Oliver's Great Big Universe: Volcanoes Are Hot!), and Rebecca Donnelly (Survival of the Fittest). Hosted by Dave Roman (Unicorn Boy).

3pm Draw Me A Story
Illustrators Ruth Chan (Uprooted) and Liz Montague (School for Unusual Magic 1: Equinox Test) draw a story live as emcee John Hendrix (The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien) weaves a tale from your audience suggestions!

 Makers and Creators Area 
Illustrators and authors welcome kids for a series of creative activities to unleash their inner author and illustrator!

ART SPOTS

11am If You Find a Leaf: Art & Storytime
Author and illustrator Aimee Sicuro shows kids how to create leaf collages. Inspired by the color and shape of each leaf, you can create a drawing that imagines what else your leaves could be. Join Aimee for a reading of If You Find a Leaf and a brief Q&A about how this book was made.

12pm Build Your Own Pop-Up Card
Make a pop-up greeting card with author-illustrator Cat Min! Cat will read her book The Little Toymaker and teach you how to make your very own dynamic pop-up card from construction paper, glue, and colored pencils.

1pm Little Crafts, Huge Fun! 
Write and illustrate a wee, mouse-sized book with Margaret McCartney and Jodi Levine, authors/illustrators of Mousetown. Mini blank book and a tiny shopping bag to carry it home provided!

3pm Customize Your Kicks
Design your own sneakers with award-winning creator C.G. Esperanza (Kicks in the Sky) in this art spot craft activity, where kids and parents can color, sticker, and dream up their own fresh kicks to hang up!

WORKSHOPS 

11am A World of Living Colors
Jason Logan, author of Make Ink and How to Be a Color Wizard, hosts a workshop of Living Colors. Experiment with non-toxic foraged art supplies, including local rust, acorns, beet juice, and other finds while learning the science, art, and magic of color! All ages. Bring your curiosity.

12pm Tear, Glue, and Snip Your Way to Your Dream Home
Taiwanese illustrator Lian-En Lin invites kids to design their very own dream homes! Using papers of different shapes, thicknesses, colors, and transparency, tear and paste to bring your imaginative ideas to life. Inspired by Lian-En Lin’s picture book Home, get ready to draw, color, and create collages, and let your creative juices flow!

1pm - Puppet Making Workshop
Vojtěch Mašek, a writer from Prague and Czechia, presents the adventurous and humorous story of Puppet, Plum Pit, Plum, Plank and back to Puppet, which won the Ragazzi Award at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. During the art workshop, children will be able to create their own puppet, which was formerly a plank, plum and plum pit, while discovering something about its tangled story. What does a plum pit have to go through before it becomes a puppet?

2pm Exploring Shapes and Shadows
Author Bruce Handy and illustrator Lisk Feng read their book, There Was a Shadow, and lead a dynamic art and poetry workshop exploring shadows, light, shapes, and color.

3pm The Magic of Color: Exploring Pigments & Art 
What is Color? The Global and Sometimes Gross Story of Pigments, Paint, and the Wondrous World of Art author Steven Weinberg leads children through an exciting introduction to color theory and pigment making—plus some good old-fashioned coloring, too! Materials will be provided so participants can color in pieces of art that are found in the book, and also at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

AUDITORIUM

12pm  Goosebumps & Beyond: A Spooky Conversation with R.L. Stine
R.L. Stine, the master of fright and one of the most popular children’s authors in history discusses the enduring popularity of Goosebumps, reads from his newest House of Shivers novel and judges a kids’ scary story contest. Bring your own spine-tingling story to share -- the most thrilling tale will win a Goosebumps tote bag full of ghoulish goodies!

 1pm Clash of the Creators: the illustrator showdown
Beloved illustrators Mike Lowery (Pizza Shark), Julie Kwon (I'm Sorry You Got Mad), and Tatiana Gardel (Abuelo, the Sea, and Me) battle it out in a raucous drawing contest emceed by the fantastic Ruth Chan (Uprooted) and Steven Weinberg (What is Color?)!