SIGNING: Illustrator Sophie Blackall signing a copy of Annie Barrows’s “Ivy + Bean” at a recent Prince-ton Public Library Children’s Book Festival. This year’s event will take place Saturday, September 20, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine, on Hinds Plaza or in the library’s Community Room.

The ninth annual Princeton Children’s Book Festival takes place Saturday, Sept. 20, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will be held rain or shine on Hinds Plaza or in the library’s Community Room.

More than 80 authors and illustrators in children’s literature will participate in the festival, one of the largest of its kind on the East Coast. During the festival, young readers can interact with the people behind their favorite books who will talk about and sign copies of their works.

Author and illustrator Dan Yaccarino, created the poster announcing this year’s festival and will attend the event. In addition to writing and illustrating more than three dozen children’s books, Mr. Yaccarino is the creator and producer of the Nickelodeon series Oswald and Willa’s Wild Life and is the character designer behind The Backyardigans.

Also participating in this year’s festival will be 2014 Caldecott Medal-winner Brian Floca (Locomotive), 2014 Theodore Geisel Award-winner Greg Pizzoli (The Watermelon Seed); Coretta Scott King Award-winner Bryan Collier (Knock, Knock: My Father’s Dream for Me), Rita Williams Garcia (One Crazy Summer; P.S. Be Eleven), Pseudonymous Bosch (The Name of this Book is Secret), Bruce Coville (Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher), Tad Hills (Rocket the Dog series; Duck and Goose series), David Lubar (Warped and Creepy Tales series), Wendy Mass (Space Taxi series, 11 Birthdays series), Anne Rockwell (Apples and Pumpkins, Hey Charleston!) and Jon Scieszka (Stinky Cheese Man, Battle Bunny).

For a complete list of additional participating authors and illustrators, see bookfestival.princetonlibrary.org.

The Princeton Children’s Book Festival is made possible by a partnership with JaZams of Princeton, Bai5, Terra Momo Restaurant Group, and the Friends of the Princeton Public Library. The library is in the Sands Library Building at 65 Witherspoon Street in Princeton. Convenient parking is available on neighboring streets and in the Spring Street Garage, which is adjacent to the library. For more information about library programs and services, call (609) 924-9529 or visit www.princetonlibrary.org.

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