Youth & Family Programs
Virginia Festival of the Book and Motheread and Fatheread of the Virginia Foundation present:
StoryFest
Saturday, March 23, 2002
9:45 am to 3:00 pm
at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Main Branch on Market Street, near the Historic Downtown Mall
Sponsored by Harris Teeter
With additional funding from The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,
State Farm Insurance Companies and WHTJ PBS Charlottesville
With special thanks to Shenanigans for providing books for sale during this time period. Books by Mary Azarian, Maryann K. Cusimano, Angela Seward, Colin Bootman, Noelle Hall, Ed White will be sold.
Schedule:
| 9:45 a.m. | "Kick-Off" presented by the International Black Belt Center |
| 10:00 a.m. | A special edition of "Tell Us A Tale" with host Peter Jones |
| 10:15 a.m. | Welcome to the Library and StoryFest! |
| 10:30 a.m. | A special edition of Storytime in Spanish La Hora de los Cuentos en Espanol |
| 11:00 a.m. | Book Festival Poster Contest Winners presented by the Altrusa Club |
| 11:15 a.m. | "Meet the Authors" Story Time!
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| 12:00 p.m. | "Your Family vs the Horrible Troll! for parents and children presented by The Parent Center |
| 12:45 p.m. | Meet the Illustrator! Colin Bootman, illustrator of The Music in Derrick’s Heart and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 1:15 p.m. | Stories Come Alive! With international storyteller Jim Weiss |
| 2:00 p.m. | WHTJ Charlottesville Reading Rainbow Contest Winners |
During the morning, Ed White will demonstrate how to work a dogsled team.
Follow the footprints on the sidewalks to other Youth and Family sites on Saturday, March 23:
At McGuffey Arts Center
11:00 a.m. 2 p.m. Hands-on printing and bookmaking events for families, with Bob
Anderson, Josef Beery, Debra Fabrizzi, Robin Braun, Marion Reynolds, and Frank
Riccio
Books by the following authors and illustrators will be available for purchase
and signing: Bob Anderson, Robin Braun, Suzanne Tanner Chitwood, Marion Reynolds,
Morgan Simone Daleo, Frank Riccio.
At Oakley’s Gently Used Books
11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Children’s Book Swap
