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

	Massachusetts children's author, Andrew Clements (center) if greeted by Sharon Shaloo (Director, MCB) & Robert (Director, MBLC) at the Massachusetts table.
John Y. Cole (Director, Center for the Book in the Library of Congress) stops by the Massachusetts table to say hello to Andrew Clements.
	Tony DiTerlizzi thrills a young reader with an autographed copy of a Spiderwick Chronicle title.
David Gray (MBLC Communications Director), sporting a Jules Pfeiffer t-shirt promoting Martha's Vineyard libraries, and one of our Junior League volunteers.
	Anne Boni (left), Program Specialist in the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and chief coordinator of the Pavilion of the States, with Shaloo & Cole.

View the 2006 Book Festival page.

View the 2005 Book Festival page.

The 2007 National Book Festival will be held on Saturday, September 29th, in Washington, DC. Read More About It at www.loc.gov/bookfest.