What is the Children's Literature Festival?

History
Impact
Outside of Pickler Memorial Library from the main parking lot. Tops of cars are in view as well as cloth signs with designs for Children's Lit Fest hung up between brick poles of the library.
Outside Pickler Memorial Library 1994

The Children’s Literature Festival is an annual event hosted by Truman State University where both grade schoolers and notable authors of children’s literature get the chance to interact. Local classes of 4th, 5th, and 6th graders are often the main attendees, but adults are also invited to come and hear the presentations prepared by selected authors.

Get a Glimpse

Explore what goes on at an average Lit Festival and browse through authors who have attended in the past.

Author NM Bodecker seated in a suit in front of a green blackboard. Facing away from view are multiple children raising hands at the author.
1986 session with NM Bodecker
Order of Events
Featured Authors
Brochures
Bookmarks
Yellow brochure with a jack-in-the-box reading a book.
1983 brochure

Artifacts

Items like brochures used for previous festivals and bookmarks signed by guest authors have been preserved in the Special Collections department at Pickler.