The stage schedule for the 2009 Festival of Books will be posted in early April, 2009. The list below is a list of events that occurred at the 2008 Festival.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Please note: Participants and panel times may change. Please come back to see updates.
Target Children's Stage
10:00 AM
Playhouse Disney's "Johnny and the Sprites"
10:35 AM
Robin Preiss Glasser
Author, "FANCY NANCY: BONJOUR BUTTERFLY"
10:55 AM
Maxwell Eaton III
Author, "Max & Pinky: Super Hero's"
11:15 AM
Todd Parr
Author, "We Belong Together"
11:45 AM
Justin Roberts & the Not Ready for Naptime Players
12:20 PM
Dave and Grace Zaboski
Former Disney Animator & Daughter, "Gideon's Dream"
12:40 PM
Sara Pennypacker & Marla Frazee
Author and Illustrator, "Clementine's Letter"
1:00 PM
Ben Barnes
"Prince Caspian" from "The Chronicles of Narnia: Price Caspian"
1:30 PM
The Doodlebops TM
2:00 PM
Aly & AJ
Authors, "Aly & AJ's Rock & Roll Mysteries"
2:20 PM
Rosemary Wells, Author, "Max's ABC"
2:40 PM
Jose-Luis Orozco
3:10 PM
Laurence Yep
Author, "American Girl – MIA"
3:45 PM
Laughing Pizza!
4:20 PM
Marlee Matlin and Doug Cooney
Authors, "Leading Ladies"
4:40 PM
Playhouse Disney's "Choo-Choo Soul"
5:10 PM
Dylan Sprouse
Authors, "47 R.O.N.I.N Series"
5:30 PM
Justin Roberts & the Not Ready for Naptime Players
Culinary Stage Presented by the South African Tourism
Emcee, Michael Weisberg
11:00 AM
Reuben Riffel
South African Chef
12:30 PM
Sherry Yard
Author, "Desserts By the Yard"
2:00 PM
Steven Raichlen
Author, "The Barbecue Bible"
3:30 PM
Sara Moulton
Author, "Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals."
Los Angeles Times Stage
Emcee, Josh Jenisch
11:00 AM
Chistopher Gavigan, Laura Dern and Josie Maran
Author & Contributors, "Healthy Child, Healthy World"
12:00 PM
Kenny Mayne
"An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport: and Other Random Thoughts from Childhood to Fatherhood"
1:00 PM
A Conversation with Valerie Bertinelli
Author of "Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time"
Interviewer, Amy Wallen
2:00 PM
Richard Paul Evans
Author, "The Gift"
3:00 PM
Richard Price
Author, "Lush Life"
4:00 PM
Sherman Alexie
Author, "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"
Poetry Stage
Emcees, Elena Karina Byrne & Marty Williams
10:00 AM
Mark Doty
Author, "Fire to Fire"
10:30 AM
Sholeh Wolpe
Author, "Rooftops of Tehran"
11:00 AM
Eloise Klein Healy & Elizabeth Bradfield
Authors, "The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho" & "Interpretive Work: Poems"
11:30 AM
Albert Goldbarth
Author, "The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007"
12:00 PM
Brian Tracy
Author, "Driving with Dante"
12:30 PM
David St. John
Author, "The Face: A Novella in Verse"
1:00 PM
Jean Valentine
Author, "Little Boat"
1:30 PM
Marvin Bell
Author, "Mars Being Red"
2:00 PM
Christopher Buckley
Author, Flying Backbone: The Georgia O'Keeffe Poems
2:30 PM
Sarah Maclay and Charles Hood
Authors, "The White Bride" and "Rio de Dios"
3:00 PM
Susan McCabe
Author, "Descartes’ Nightmare"
3:30 PM
Lynne Thompson and Jeffery Levine
Authors, "Beg No Pardon" and "Rumor of Cortez"
4:00 PM
Jennifer Kwan Dobbs
Author, "Paper Pavilion"
4:30 PM
Tony Barnstone
Author, "The Golem of Los Angeles"
5:00 PM
Catherine Daly and Stuart Dischell
Authors, "Locket" and "Backwards Days"
Etc. Stage
Emcee, Ron Morrissette
10:00 AM
Japanese Festival Sounds
Musical Performance
11:00 AM
Murphy's Flaw
Accidental Bluegrass
12:00 PM
Kitty Felde
Presents L.A. 36's Book Club for Young Adults
1:00 PM
Victor Wooten
Musical Performance and Author, "The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music"
2:00 PM
PEN Center USA
Emerging Voices, Reading
3:30 PM
ADAAWE
Musical Performance
4:30 PM
Killa4nia
Break dancing Performance
Reading By 9 Storytelling Stage
Emcee, Adam Rivera
10:00 AM
Adam Rivera
Telling Stories
10:30 AM
Rick Riordan
Author, "Percy Jackson & the Olympians"
11:00 AM
Beethoven's Wig
Musical Performance
11:30 AM
Kim Wayans and Kevin Knotts
Authors, "Amy Hodgepodge"
12:00 PM
The Ohmies!
Children's Activities and Music
12:30 PM
Ann Bowler
Author, "Adventures of the Treasure Fleet: China Discovers the World"
1:00 PM
Eric Blank
Author, "The Success of Robert Fitzgibbons"
1:30 PM
"The Magical Tree and Musical Wind" by
The Library Fairy®
2:00 PM
Shushybye
Theater Performance
3:00 PM
Barbara Joosse
Author, "Grandma Calls Me Beautiful"
3:30 PM
Leonard Stern
Creator of MadLibs
4:00 PM
Mark Wenzel
Street Performer
4:30 PM
Marianne Jones
Author, "Cedric and Pete's Sailboat"
5:00 PM
Leo Politi’s,
"Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street"
Presented by Theatre of Puppets
5:30 PM
Bunny Hull
Author, "Young Masters: Little Wisdom’s Series"
