National Book Festival
The 2007 National Book Festival was held on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on 29 September 2007. More than 125,000 festival goers came out to celebrate books and reading, to hear favorite authors, and to visit the Pavilion of the States to get a great overview of national book culture.
Festival Poster by Mercer Mayer
The Massachusetts table, hosted the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Center for the Book, highlighted this year's MassBooks, 
welcomed Tobin Anderson, an NBF participant, and recommended Joe McKendry's Beneath the Streets of Boston: Building America's First Subway (Godine) for the festival literary map/national children's reading list.
In Beneath the Streets of Boston, Joe McKendry presents a beautiful visual record of Boston's first big dig. Festival visitors were drawn to the wonderful illustrations and were also delighted to take away maps of our current subway system, compliments of the MBTA. The NECCO wafers we brought along were also a hit! In previous years, Massachusetts has promoted Make Way for Ducklings, The Cat in the Hat, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Johnny Tremain and Henry Hikes to Fitchburg.
Massachusetts Writers at the 2007 National Book Festival, with links to their festival webcasts:
M. T. Anderson (Cambridge)
Holly Black (Amherst)
Patricia MacLachlan (Williamsburg)
Joan Nathan (Martha's Vineyard)
Also visit the Library of Congress National Book Festival Site, which hosts webcasts of all writers appearing at the festival.
More Images from the Pavilion of the States
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Massachusetts author, M.T. Anderson, signing a copy of Feed for a fan at the Massachusetts table. |
| Rob Maier (Director, Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners) at the Massachusetts table at the opening of the festival. | |
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Maier with and Sharon Shaloo (Mass Center for the Book) and a Junior League volunteer. |
| Shaloo, with her son, Nick Mikita, a Massachusetts volunteer at NBF 2007. |
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| Maier and Anderson at NBF 2007. | |
| View the 2005 Book Festival page. |
The 2008 National Book Festival is scheduled for Saturday, September 27th, in Washington, DC. Read More About It at www.loc.gov/bookfest.