[ShareTompkins] Fwd: free Kids' Book Fest is This Weekend! Join us as we Love Those Letters!

[Shira Golding]

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> From: Brigid Hubberman <brigid at familyreading.org>
> Date: November 10, 2010 2:15:38 PM EST
> To: TC-HSC-L <TC-HSC-L at cornell.edu>
> Subject: Kids' Book Fest is This Weekend! Join us as we Love Those  
> Letters!
> Reply-To: Brigid Hubberman <brigid at familyreading.org>
>
> You’re invited!
>
> Join us for the Kids’ Book Fest Featured Author Preview,- 6:00pm  
> Friday (11/12) at Wegmans. Tad Hills, author of “How Rocket Learned  
> to Read”, and his real dog Rocket will give a special presentation,  
> meet families and autograph books at Wegmans on Friday, Nov.11th, at  
> 6:00 pm, the evening before KBF.
>
> Everyone is invited to our community’s annual celebration of  
> children’s books.....
>
> Family Reading Partnership’s
> Kids’ Book Fest 2010
> “Love Those Letters! The Alphabet and Beyond!”
>
> Saturday, November 13th
> 10 am – 4 pm
>
> Boynton Middle School, Ithaca, NY
>
> Still Free Admission
> thanks to sponsorship support from
> Tompkins County Area Development
>
>
> Park at Stewart Park and ride the Kids’ Book Fest Express!
>
> Wear your favorite letter and join the Amazing Alphabet Parade at  
> 11:30!
>
> Family Reading Partnership’s 13th annual Kids’ Book Fest is being  
> held this Saturday, November 13, from 10 am to 4 pm at Boynton  
> Middle School in Ithaca, NY. The event is free for all thanks to  
> sponsorship from TCAD, Tompkins County Area Development.
>
> This year you can park your car at Stewart Park and take the free,  
> special Kids’ Book Fest Express shuttle right to the entrance of  
> the Book Fest. Easy to park and ride, you’ll be able to browse the  
> program along the way, and children will receive an alphabet letter  
> as they board!
>
> This year the theme is “Love Those Letters! The Alphabet and  
> Beyond!” All the letters of the alphabet and the words they make,  
> will be the stars of this year’s Book Fest. Join the Amazing  
> Alphabet Parade at 11:30 wearing your favorite letter. Bring a  
> letter from home or make a letter button, necklace, hat, or sash at  
> the Book Fest for the parade.
>
> Meet Tad Hills, the author and illustrator of the featured book,  
> “How Rocket Learned to Read,” and his real life dog Rocket, and  
> walk through a life-sized, interactive version of this charming  
> story.  More than 3,750 children in Tompkins County received “How  
> Rocket Learned to Read” as gifts from their schools prior to the  
> Book Fest, thanks to sponsorship from Wegmans Reading Centers.
>
> Families can listen to books read aloud, make their own book to take  
> home, meet authors and illustrators and see performances based on  
> books.  Toddlers can visit Little Letter Land, a special area just  
> for letter-loving little ones. In addition, more than 25 community  
> organizations and libraries will host Book Stations with activities  
> based on children’s books.  Families will also enjoy seeing the  
> Waterfall of Words and playing Alphabet Hopscotch!  In addition,  
> special displays from 27 classrooms from schools across Tompkins  
> County will be showcased.
>
> The 2011 “Read to Me” calendar will be available for sale, as  
> well as favorite children’s books, alphabet books, red book bags,  
> and “Read to Me” note cards. Alphabet pasta lunch is just $3.
>
> For more information call 607.277.8602 or email Karen at familyreading.org 
> .
>
>
> Kids’ Book Fest Saturday Entertainment Schedule
>
> 10:30 am    Tad Hills and his dog Rocket sign books in the cafeteria
> 10:30 am    “Read-Along Songs” with John Simon and Cal Walker in  
> the theatre
> 11:30 am   The AMAZING Alphabet Parade!
> 12:30 pm   Tad Hills and his dog Rocket sign books in the cafeteria
> 1:00 pm     The Love Those Letters! Kids sing, sign and dance the  
> Alphabet
> 2:00 pm     Rocket On Stage performance of Tad Hills’ book  “How  
> Rocket Learned to Read”
> 2:30 pm     Tad Hills Presents The author  reads aloud and talks  
> about creating children’s books
>
> Meet Local Authors and Illustrators in the Book Store!
>
> 10:30am – 11:15am:  Ruth Kahn & Emily Johnson
> 12pm – 12:45pm: Gail Jarrow & Lisa Eisenberg
> 12:45pm – 1:30pm: Suzanne Bloom, Minfong Ho, & Brandon Graves
> 1:30pm – 2:15pm: Carol Cedarholm & Katrina Morse
>

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