Saturday, September 10, 2016
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Kansas State Capitol
300 SW 10th St.
Topeka, KS
Head to Topeka for the Kansas Book Festival! This free once a year event features mostly Kansas authors in presentations about their books throughout the day, as well as hands on activities for children. This year Jane O’Conner who writes the Fancy Nancy series is a featured children’s author.
The 2016 authors include:
Children
Jane O’Connor – Fancy Nancy series (Ages 4-8)
Stephen T. Johnson – Alphabet Schools (Ages 4-8)
Krista Boan & Alysia Quisenberry – Grab Your Crown: A ballad for those who Believe (Ages 4-8)
Barbara Waterman-Peters & Glendyn Buckley – The Fish’s Wishes
Molly McCluckey-Shipman – Emma’s Dilemma (Ages 3-8)
Vera Lynne Stroup-Rentier – Marco and I Want to Play Ball: A true story of inclusion and self-determination (Ages 3-8)
Middle-Grades and YA
Aaron Barnhart & Diane Eickhoff – Firebrand (Ages 10-18)
Andrea Warren: The Boy Who Became Buffalo Bill: Growing Up Billy Cody in Bleeding Kansas (Ages 9-14)
Roderick Townley – A Bitter Magic (Ages 9-14)
Adult Fiction
Michael D. Graves – To Leave a Shadow
Crystal Bradshaw – Eliza: A Generational Journey
Adult Non-Fiction
Michael V. Hayden – Former CIA & NSA Director, Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Dr. Rachel Epp Buller – Have Milk Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding
Jonathan & Kristin Conard – Kansas Trail Guide
Scott Martelle – The Madman and the Assassin: The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, the Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth
Michael John Haddock – Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds
Rod Beemer – Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters
George Frazier – The Last Wild Places of Kansas
Rosa Walston Latimer – Harvey Houses of Kansas: Historic Hospitality from Topeka to Syracuse
Dana Bowman – Bottled: A Mom’s Guide to Early Recovery
Warren Street – Twenty-Five Years Among the Indians and Buffalo: A Frontier Memoir
Poetry
Melissa Fite Johnson – While the Kettle’s On
Cookbook
Jeff Martin – Buttercream Dreams
More details are available on their website.