Saturday, April 25, 2009

Festival of Books!!!!


Its the 14th annual Festival of Books, held at UCLA!

It is today and tomorrow. They have tons of authors coming to sign, and tons of panels. Its a fun day! You can buy books, get books signed, listen to your favorite authors, or maybe an up and coming author.

Its a Free event, and there is parking available on campus for $9 or just park somewhere nearby and take a bus up.

Heres some of the panel lineup:

Saturday:
Mary Higgins Clark
T. Jefferson Parker
Robert Crais
Laurie Halse Anderson
Gore Vidal
Ray Bradbury
Carl Zimmer
Wil Wheaton
Kate DiCamillo
and
Clive Barker

Sunday:
S.E. Hinton
Michael J. Fox
Elizabeth Taylor!!!!!! (in all of her glory)
Jerry Stahl
T.C. Boyle
James Ellroy
and
Arianna Huffington

Some of the Stage Lineup:

Saturday:
Brooke Shields
Eric Carle (its the 40th Anniversary of The Very Hungry Caterpillar)
Yeardley Smith
Tori Spelling
Alyssa Milano
Kristing Chenoweth
Bob Barker

Sunday:

Henry Winkler
Maureen McCormick
Cloris Leachman
Marlee Matlin
Culture Clash
826LA (an awesome program for kids, Check them out)

Its a pretty cool event, lots of people, lots of kids, lots of BOOKS!!!!

Check out the website for details.

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