Events - Children’s Authors & Entertainers

Provided below is a list of all Collingswood Book Festival events featuring authors of children’s literature as well as children’s entertainers. Also available is a downloadable and printable PDF of all festival events this year. Please note that the event schedule is subject to change as necessary.

Saturday, October 2

Location: Tent 3 - At the Clock (near intersection of Haddon and Irvin Avenues)

10:30 a.m. — Robin Newman, Don’t Call Me Fuzzybutt!

10:45 a.m. — Keosha Sath, Quest Like You

11:00 a.m. — Performance by Kids’ MusicRound with Miss Michelle 

11:30 a.m. — Leslie Connor, A Home for Goddesses and Dogs

12:00 p.m. — Mike Ciccotello, Beach Toys vs. School Supplies

12:15 p.m. — Nancy Viau, Something is Bugging Samantha Hansen

12:30 p.m. — Paula Garcia Taveras, Phoenix the Brave Bird

12:45 p.m. — Rachelle Burk, The Best Four Questions

1:00 p.m. — Kathleen Lindsey, Sweet Potato Pie

1:15 p.m. — Shenita Agee, DJ Goes to School

1:30 p.m. — Steph Ox, Don’t Draw on Mommy’s Wall

2:00 p.m. — Byron MacWilliams, The Girl in the Haystack

2:15 p.m. — Amanda Rowe, If There Never was a You

2:30 p.m. — Amy Rebecca Tan, A Kind of Paradise

2:45 p.m. — Ann Magee, Branches of Hope: The 9/11 Survivor Tree

3:00 p.m. — Annette Whipple, Woof! The Truth About Dogs

3:15 p.m. — Colleen Rowan Kosinski, A Home Again

3:30 p.m. — Christina Daly, Henry the Green Zebra-Pig


Location: Loompaland Alley (Irvin Avenue) 

10:00 a.m. — Miss Michelle, Kids’ Music Round of Collingswood

10:30 a.m. — Sara O’Brien, Community Rocks

11:00 a.m. — Lady Hawke, Storyteller

11:30 a.m. — Sara Gafgen, Storyteller

12:00 p.m. — Miss Michelle, Kids’ Music Round of Collingswood

12:30 p.m. — Sara O’Brien, Community Rocks

1:00 p.m. — Sara Gafgen, Storyteller

1:30 p.m. — Julia Maia and Jaiden Watkins, musical performers

2:00 p.m. — Eamonn Garrity and Desmond Whitaker, musical performers

2:30 p.m. — Julie Gonzalez, How Could a Bear Sleep Here?

3:15 p.m. —  Amanda Rowe, If There Never was a You

View bios of our participating children’s authors.