Texas Book Festival

Meet the Authors
(click on a link to visit their website!)

Judy Schachner - This terrific lady has illustrated and written
LOTS of great books. She shared her latest in the Skippyjon
Jones series, Lost in Spice! What a silly little kitty thinking he's a
Chihuahua!

Mac Barnett - This inventive author leaves you guessing in his
new book-you think you've got the riddle figured out? Well,
Guess Again! I also LOVED his story Billy Twitter and His Blue
Whale Problem.

Jon Scieszka - You may know this funny guy through his
books The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, The Stinky Cheese
Man, or Math Curse. To encourage boys to read books, he
shared Robot Zot! and a little about his literacy initiative for boys.

Brian Floca - Mr. Floca shared some great slides of art his
mother had saved from when his was a little boy. His art is
terrific and his newest book Moonshot : The Flight of Apollo 11
is a terrific picture book that takes the reader into this amazing
mission to the moon.

Bruce Foster - Have you ever heard of a paper engineer? That
is this amazing artist's job when he is designing terrific pop-up
books. Did you know he designed the pop-ups for Disney's
Enchanted movie? Mr. Foster shared the stage with Mo Willems
to talk about their pop-up collaboration called Big Frog Can't Fit
In. He also taught a tent-full of children and parents how to make
their very own pop-up card! So cool!

Mo Willems - This creative author of the Pigeon series (and
other terrific books) was at the festival "live via Skype." So Mr.
Willems took us on a virtual tour of his studio while he discussed
working together with Bruce Foster for Big Frog Can't Fit In. He
took questions from the audience, but his biggest encouragement
was for each of us to write our own stories! Great idea!