Featured Authors
The honored authors and illustrators who take the time to attend these Children's Literature Festivals is the reason why such an event is hosted at all. Several decades of about ten guest authors per year have passed by, but to summarize what it may have been like meeting them and to see why many of them choose to do what they do, just ten across the timeline can be browsed below.
There are many book covers on display here as well as on the subsequent authors' pages. Each of them is a signed book kept safe in Pickler Memorial Library's Special Collections. The entire collection includes not only works from these ten authors, but dozens of other contributors to children's literature who have attended the Children's Literature Festival.

Peter Z. Cohen
Attended 1983
Arnold Adoff
Attended 1988


Sandy Asher
Attended 1983 and 1991
Dean Hughes
Attended 1986, 1989, and 1995


Lensey Namioka
Attended 1998
Jane Kurtz
Attended 2002, 2010, and 2015


Mike Thaler
Attended 2009
Mary Downing Hahn
Attended 1989 and 2012


Angela Cervantes
Attended 2016
Hena Khan
Attended 2019
