Wednesday, February 26th | 3 p.m.

NewSouth Books | Booth #1322-B

About the Author

Frye Gaillard is an award-winning journalist with over 30 published works on Southern history and culture. He is the writer-in-residence at the University of South Alabama, and also John Egerton Scholar in Residence at the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Missisippi. He is the winner of the Clarence Cason Award for Nonfiction Writing, the Lillian Smith Book Award, and the Eugene Current-Garcia Award For Distinction in Literary Scholarship. In 2019, Gaillard was awarded the Alabama Governor's Arts Award for his contributions to literature.

Marti S. Rosner has been an educator for 41 years. She has worked as a classroom teacher, District Academic Coach serving Title I schools in Cobb County, Georgia, and most recently led writing workshops for teachers and students at her granddaughter's elementary school. Through the years, she has also enjoyed leading a variety of professional development classes, serving as a Teacher Consultant for the National Writing Project, and training teachers across the country as a curriculum specialist for Sundance-Newbridge, an educational publishing company.

About the Book

An expressive, beautifully illustrated book for children (7-12), The Slave Who Went to Congress tells the little known story of Benjamin Sterling Turner, an enslaved man who became the first African American from Alabama to serve in Congress. The Slave Who Went to Congress is a story of strength and determination, of an American hero. Author Rita Williams-Garcia calls it "a gem." Maryann McDonald says it's a story "as powerful as that of Frederick Douglass." 

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Wednesday, February 26th | 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 27th | 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Friday, February 28th | 9 a.m.

KO Kids Books | Booth #1312-A

About the Author

Kathryn Otoshi is the acclaimed author of One, winner of 20 awards, including the E.B. White Read Aloud Honor Book and the Teacher's Choice Award. Co-author and illustrator of Beautiful Hands, she speaks all over the country, using her character-building number books to inspire children of all ages

About the Book

One: Blue is a quiet color. Red's a hothead who likes to pick on Blue. Yellow, Orange, Green, and Purple don't like what they see, but what can they do? When no one speaks up, things get out of hand - until One comes along and shows all the colors how to stand up, stand together, and count. As budding young readers learn about numbers, counting, and primary and secondary colors, they also learn about accepting each other's differences and how it sometimes just takes one voice to make everyone count.

Lunch Every Day: Jimmy is rough and acts tough. Every day he takes ‘Skinny Kid’s’ lunch at school. No way will he be caught dead standing in that FREE LUNCH line. Even when he’s called into the principal’s office, Jimmy just shrugs. “Yeah. Whatever.” Until a surprising act of kindness gives him pause. And for a split second, a door cracks open into Jimmy’s heart. Who knows? Maybe he’ll just kick that door right open.

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Wednesday, February 26th | 5 p.m.

Thursday, February 27th | 10 a.m. & 2 p.m.

Encantos Media | Booth #1313-A

About the Author

Susie Jaramillo is an author illiustrator and the creator of Canticos; a baby brand inspired by Latino nursery rhymes featuring bilingual board books, games, videos and more. Her first book Los Pollitos/Little Chickies has received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal. She has gone on to publish 5 more books in the Canticos Series.

About the Book

Little Chickies/Los Pollitos is the 1st book in the bilingual (English & Spanish) nursery rhyme collection from Canticos.  

This book is based on “Los Pollitos Dicen”, one of the most popular songs in the Spanish speaking world.  

Little Chickies/Los Pollitos was named a Best Book of the Year 2016 by Kirkus Reviews.  

Canticos is a collection of the most beloved nursery rhymes and children’s songs from all over the Spanish-speaking world. Canticos creates bilingual books, apps, and sing-along videos."

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Wednesday, February 26th | 4 p.m.

Thursday, February 27th | 10 a.m.

Friday, February 28th | 10 a.m.

Readers to Eaters | Booth #1312-B

About the Author

June Jo Lee is the co-founder of Readers to Eaters, an independent children’s book publisher with a social mission to promote literacy about our food system and literacy through stories about food. She is the resident food ethnographer for Google’s Global Food Program, providing user insights and strategy. June grew up between Seoul Korea, Austin Texas and Palo Alto California, eating her mom’s handmade kimchi.

About the Book

"Sohn maash" is the flavors in our fingertips. It is the love and cooking talent that Korean mothers and grandmothers mix into their handmade foods. For Chef Roy Choi, food means love. It also means culture, not only of Korea where he was born, but the many cultures that make up the streets of Los Angeles, where he was raised. So remixing food from the streets, just like good music—and serving it up from a truck—is true to L.A. food culture. People smiled and talked as they waited in line. Won't you join him as he makes good food smiles? 

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Wednesday, February 26th | 5 p.m.

Thursday, February 27th | 11 a.m. and 2p.m.

Readers to Eaters | Booth #1312-B

About the Author

Shabazz Larkinmade his illustrator debut with Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table and his author/illustrator debut with A Moose Boosh: A Few Choice Words About Food. Both were named Notable Children's books by the American Library Association. He is also an advertising creative director and multi-disciplinary artist, painting vibrant portraiture on canvas, typographic printing techniques and film. He is most known for his "Black Magic" collection, a series of portraits that capture the beauty of resilience in black culture. He lives in Nashville, TN.

About the Book

"Sometimes bees can be a bit rude. They fly in your face and prance on your food." And yet… without bees, we might not have strawberries for shortcakes or avocados for tacos! Shabazz Larkin’s The Thing About Bees is a Norman Rockwell-inspired Sunday in the park, a love poem from a father to his two sons, and a tribute to the bees that pollinate the foods we love to eat. 

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Thursday, February 27th | 11 a.m.

Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Press | Booth #1322-B

About the Author

Denise Brixey grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she studied writing. When she moved up to the Gold Country, Denise volunteered at a cat rescue and soon discovered that cats have a mystery all their own that she admired. Denise has now combined her two passions: writing and cats, and has created Harry, the Wonder Cat.

About the Book

Harry the Wonder Cat has been around since the beginning of time, and has been helping the Johnson family through life’s ups and downs for centuries. Harry is no ordinary cat—and the Johnsons are no ordinary family.

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Thursday, February 27th | 1:30 p.m.

Lifestyle Entrepreneur Press | Booth #1322-B

About the Author

Carla Vergot took a sabbatical from teaching special education in Virginia to write the first book in the Lily Barlow series-The Mystery of Jane Dough. She enjoyed the experience so much that she permanently resigned from the public school system to work on the second book - The Mystery in the Mangroves.

About the Book

A devotee of fictional bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, Lily Barlow starts to wonder if she could go from an amateur sleuth to a professional one, or at the very least get a minor in sleuthing. You gotta start somewhere, right? After all, she’s certain Mis Delphine is busy burying bodies out back, and if she just had a little more crime scene training, she could probably blow that case sky high. Not that she necessarily wants to bust a crazy old lady who has been nothing but kind, letting her live rent-free in the efficiency apartment above the garage. Regardless, Miss Delphine is hiding something. Or is it someone?

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Thursday, February 27th | 2 p.m.

Turner Publishing | Booth #1326

About the Author

Rachel Gladstone is a staff writer for Dish Magazine - where she reviews books for her column All Booked Up - and wrote a TV pilot, "Hopeful Times" for Cornerstone Entertainment which is now in pre-production. Rachel has also contributed work to The Nashville Scene, Ourselves, Foundations, GX, The Lipscomb College of Business and Nashville Lifestyles magazines. Her blog, The Petty Chronicles, about the funny side of divorce had 30,000 readers. She is now blogging for DivorcedMoms.com (http://www.divorcedmoms.com/blogs/the-petty-chronicles)

About the Book

A romantic comedy about death and second chances. 30-year-old Nashvillian Julia Holmes’ journey through unexpected tragedy prompts her to say “I Do” to a new job as a Wedding Planning Assistant. She soon learns that things can change at any moment and that love can be found when you least expect it. "

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Wednesday, February 27th | 3:30 p.m.

Catapult | Booth #1313-B

About the Author

Dr. François S. Clemmons received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College, and a Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University. He also received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Middlebury College. In 1973, he won a Grammy Award for a recording of Porgy and Bess; in 1986, he founded and directed the Harlem Spiritual Ensemble; and from 1997 until his retirement in 2013, Clemmons was the Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence and director of the Martin Luther King Spiritual Choir at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he currently resides.

About the Book

The intimate debut memoir by the man known to the world as Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’s "Officer Clemmons," a Grammy Award-winning artist who made history as the first African American actor to have a recurring role on a children’s television program  

Officer Clemmons: A Memoir details the incredible life story of François Clemmons, beginning with his early years in Alabama and Ohio, marked by family trauma and loss, through his studies as a music major at Oberlin College, where Clemmons began to investigate and embrace his homosexuality, to a chance encounter with Fred Rogers which changed the whole course of both men’s lives, leading to a deep, spiritual friendship and mentorship spanning nearly forty years.

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Friday, February 28th | 10:40 a.m.

Catapult | Booth #1313-B

About the Author

Noé Álvarez was born to Mexican immigrant parents and raised working-class in Yakima, Washington. He lives in Boston, where, until recently, he worked as a security officer at one of the nation's oldest libraries, the Boston Athenæum.  

About the Book  

For fans of Christopher McDougall's Born to Run, the electrifying debut memoir of a son of working-class Mexican immigrants who fled a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala, challenging himself to reimagine North America and his place in it.

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Friday, February 28th | 10 a.m.

Counterpoint | Booth #1313-B

About the Author

Bob Garfield is the cohost of public radio's weekly Peabody Award-winning On the Media and has been a globally prominent media and advertising critic for three decades. He is also the founding cohost of Slate's podcast on language, Lexicon Valley. Garfield has been a columnist or contributing editor for The Washington Post Magazine, The Guardian, and the op-ed page of USA Today. He has also written for The New York Times, Playboy, The Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, and Wired. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area.

About the Book

Do you fear for our democracy? Are you perplexed by Trumpism? Are you ready to throw in the towel? Don’t! This is your guidebook to reassembling our hyperpolarized American society in six (not-so-easy) steps, written by cohost of WNYC's On the Media Bob Garfield.

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