Our fourth annual Turn the Page! children’s book festival will take place Saturday, May 18, with a new bookstore partner: East Bay Booksellers. 

• Enjoy read-alouds by authors and live art demonstrations by illustrators

• Meet more than 30 authors and illustrators and ask them about their craft

• Buy books from Oakland’s own East Bay Booksellers and have them signed

• Celebrate young writers and their work at our Kid Author Table 

• Visit Oakland Public Library's Fairyland Branch to sign up for the new Fairyland library card, designed by local illustrator Michael Wertz. Or use your creativity to make a bookish craft with OPL librarians!

With special presentations by: Annie Barrows, Lisa Brown, Nidhi Chanani, Kamaria Lofton, Miriam Klein Stahl and Kate Schatz, and Todd Parr

Featuring: Simone Alexander, Alexandra Boiger, Sally Bolger, Alina Chau, Angela Dalton, Jill Diamond, Marcus Ewert, Sandra V. Feder, Michael Fleming, Meg Fleming, Alexandria Giardino, Melissa Greenberg, Jeanne Walker Harvey, Sarah and Ian Hoffman, Eda Kaban, Janine Macbeth, Innosanto Nagara, Donald Oppenheim, James Robinson, Simone Shin, Regina Shklovsky, Dashka Slater, Nikki Shannon Smith, Jane Solomon, Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan, Meera Sriram, K-Fai Steele, and Michael Wertz

Through April 12, we're accepting entries in our Young Writers Contest, open to kids under 18 -- your chance to share your work at Turn the Page!