2007 Stages
Festival of Books Program Guide
Saturday, April 28, 2007
ETC. Stage Emcee: Ron Morrissette
10:30am
WriteGirl
A Celebration of Words, Women & Girls
11:00a.m.
Musical Performance
12:00p.m.
Musical Performance
1:00pm
Define-A-Thon
With Author/Moderator Steve Kleinedler, Senior Editor
2:00pm
Scott Fickas
Musical Performance
4:30pm
Upground
Stage Performance
Reading by 9 Storytelling Stage
Emcee: Adam Rivera
10:00am
Adam Rivera
Telling Stories
10:30am
Kylee Lin
Miss California Teen USA 2007, Reads a favorite
11:00am
Rafe Esquith
Author, Teach Like your Hair’s on Fire”
Shakespeare Performance
11:30am
LA Dodgers
A Special reading by Dodger Wives and Former Players
12:00pm
Jim Weiss of Greathall Productions
Telling Stories
12:30pm
Chris Gall reads “Dear Fish”
1:00pm
Alan Katz
Author, “That’s Right, That’s Wrong”
1:30pm
Steve Crouch
Telling Stories
2:00pm
Tina Louise
Formerly known as Ginger on Gilligan’s Island
Author, “When I Grow Up”
2:30pm
Kidspace Children’s Museum
Presents: “Silky’s World Famous Spider Show”
3:00pm
Ruth Forman
Author, “Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon”
3:30pm
Derek Munson
Author, “Enemy Pie”
4:30pm
The SqueeGees
Musical Performance
5:00pm
Jay Jay the Jet Plane
Where the Imagination Takes Flight
5:30pm
Adam Rivera
Telling Stories
Target’s Children's Stage
10:05am
Special Appearance by
HI-5TM
10:35am
Todd Parr
Author, “Reading Makes You Feel Good”
10:55am
Angelina BallerinaTM
and Katharine Holabird
11:25am
Henry Winkler
Author, “Hank Zipzer: The World’s Greatest Underachiever”
11:50am
Justin Roberts and Not Ready for Naptime Players
12:25pm
Laura Numeroff
Author, “Mouse Cookies & More: A Treasury”
12:45pm
Lori, Lori What’s the Story?
1:15pm
Robin Preiss Glasser
Author, “Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy”
1:40pm
Debi Derryberry
2:10pm
Ann Howard Creel and the American Girl Ambassadors
Author, “Nicki”
2:40pm
Special Appearance by
HI-5TM
3:10pm
Julie Andrews Edwards
Author, “Emma Walton, Thanks to You”
3:30pm
Laughing Pizza!
4:00pm
David Shannon
Illustrator, “Pirates Don't Change Diapers”
4:20pm
Anne Bowen
Author, “What Do Teachers Do (After You Leave School)?”
4:40pm
Joe Cepeda
Author-Illustrator, “The Swing” and “Nappy Hair”
5:05pm
Justin Roberts and Not Ready for Naptime Players
The Barnes & Noble Stage
10:00am
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
In Conversation
Authors, “On the Shoulders of Giants”
11:00am
Tim Gunn
Author, “A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style”
12:00pm
Dan Mathews
Author, “Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir”
1:00pm
Mike Farrell
Author, “Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist”
2:00pm
Sherman Alexie
Author, “Flight”
3:00pm
Marisha Pessl
Author, “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”
4:00pm
Don Cheadle and John Prendergast
In Conversation
Authors, “Not on Our Watch: A Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond”
5:00pm
Walter Mosley
Author, “This Year Your Write Your Novel”
Cooking Stage Emcee: Michael Weisberg
11:00am
Govind Armstrong
Author, “Small Bites, big Nights”
12:30pm
Dave Lieberman
Author, “Dave’s Dinners”
2:00pm
Cat Cora
Author, “Cooking from the Hip”
3:30pm
Ted Allen
Author, “The Food You Want to Eat”
Poetry StageEmcee: Elena Byrne with M.L. Williams
10:00am
Hélène Cardona
Author, “The Astonished Universe”
10:30am
Luis J. Rodriguez
Author, “My Nature is Hunger”
11:00am
Carol Muske-Dukes
Author, “Sparrow: Poems”
11:30am
David St. John
Author, “The Face: A Novella In Verse”
12:00pm
Robin Becker
Author, “Domain of Perfect Affection”
12:30pm
Mark Irwin
Author, “Bright Hunger”
1:00pm
Joshua Clover
Author, “The Totality for Kids (Poems)
1:30pm
Meghan O’Rourke
Author, “Halflife”
2:00pm
Judith Hall
Author, “Three Trios”
2:30pm
Michael Waters
Author, “Darling Vulgarity”
3:00pm
Jeffrey Levine
Author, “Rumor of Cortez”
3:30pm
Erin Belieu
Author, “Black Box”
4:00pm
Tom Satterlee
Author, “Burning Wyclif”
4:30pm
C. Dale Young
Author, “The Second Person”
5:00pm
Daniel Meyers & Amy Gerstler
Reading from Bert Meyers' “In A Dybbuk's Raincoat: Collected Poems”
