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Friday, June 6, 2003 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs 2003 National Book Festival To Be Held October 4 Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced Saturday, Oct. 4, as the date for the third annual National Book Festival. The popular festival is organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by Mrs. Laura Bush. This year’s festival will be bigger with new pavilions for “Home & Family,” “Teens and Children,” and “Poetry”. The festival will take place rain or shine from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the National Mall between 7th and 14th streets in Washington, D.C. Pavilions devoted to “Children,” “Fiction & Imagination,” “Mystery” and “History & Biography” are back again, featuring readings and performances by more than 80 authors, illustrators and storytellers. Also scheduled are appearances by popular storybook and television characters for the kids and book sales and author signings for their parents. Other pavilions will include displays of literacy and reading promotion materials from around the country. The festival and exhibits are free to visitors. Invited to appear at the 2003 National Book Festival are Robert Caro, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Master of the Senate, the third volume in his series The Years of Lyndon Johnson; the 2003 Caldecott (for illustration) and Newbery (for story) award winners in children’s literature, Eric Rohmann and Avi; mystery writer Laura Lippman, whose protagonist Tess Monaghan lives in Baltimore; and in the new “Home & Family Pavilion,” French chef, author, instructor and host of television cooking shows, Jacques Pepin.
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