Nantucket Book Festival: June 19 - 21 2015

Introduce your children to the exciting world of books and reading… is it ever too early to learn what treasures books hold in store for one’s imagination?

The stories will be chosen to match the typical attention span and developmental level of children ages 2 through 10, and help children develop pre-literacy skills while having FUN at the same time.

Kids! Put your foot down! Don’t let your parents not bring you to Story Time!

The books read aloud will be carefully selected to include stories related to Nantucket and the sea, as well as the popular titles most in demand today by our youngest bibliophiles. There will also be readings in Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and other languages as well. Story Time is guaranteed to please one and all!

Story Times will be held Friday and Saturday June 19 and 20 on the half hours (from 9 AM till 11:30 AM) at the Local Authors Tent in the Atheneum Garden. Check the schedule at the tent for specifics. A parent or care-giver must remain with toddlers during the programs.

All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. 
 

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FRIDAY, JUNE 19

At the Atheneum, Great Hall:

8:30-9:30 am: Anita Diamant, The Boston Girl (ticketed event)

10:00-10:45 am: Ishmael Beah, The Radiance of Tomorrow

11:00-11:45 am: Katherine Bouton, Shouting Won’t Help

12:00-12:45 pm: Bret Anthony Johnston, Remember Me Like This

1:15-2:00 pm: Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination

2:30-3:15 pm: Justin St. Germain, Son of a Gun

3:30-4:15 pm: Belinda McKeon, Solace

4:15-5:00 pm: LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Jam on the Vine

 
At the Nantucket Yacht Club:

12:00-2:30 pm: Elin Hilderbrand, The Rumor, and Jane Green, Summer Secrets (ticketed event)
 
In the Atheneum Garden:

9:00 am-3:30 pm: Local Author Tent and Storytimes

2:00-2:45 pm: Leslie Linsley and Terry Pommett, Nantucket Cottages and Gardens

At the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House:

7:00-8:00 pm: Opening Night Celebration Featuring Ishmael Beah, Azar Nafisi, and Scott Turow and the Young Writer Awards

 

SATURDAY, JUNE 20

 
At the Atheneum, Great Hall:

9:00-10:30 am: LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Belinda McKeon, and Justin St. Germain in conversation with Michael Schulder

11:00 am-12:00 pm: Scott Turow, Identical

12:30-1:15 pm: Bruce Guernsey, From Rain: Poems, 1970-2010

1:15-2:00 pm: Paul Muldoon, One Thousand Things Worth Knowing

2:30-3:45 pm: Jean Hanff Korelitz, You Should Have Known, and Bill Roorbach, The Remedy for Love

4:00-5:30 pm: Joanna Rakoff, My Salinger Year, and Blake Bailey, The Splendid Things We Planned


At The Dreamland Theater:

8:30-10:00 am: Alice Hoffman, Nightbird, and Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time, with Samantha Van Leer (ticketed event)

10:30-11:30 am: R.W. Alley, Paddington (illustrator), and Zoë B. Alley, Enzo Races in the Rain!

12:00-1:30 pm: K.A. Holt, Rhyme Schemer, and J.E. Thompson, The Girl from Felony Bay

2:00-2:45 pm: Robert Kurson, Pirate Hunters

3:15-4:15 pm: Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer, Off the Page

4:30-5:30 pm: Ann Hood, An Italian Wife, in conversation with Nancy Thayer

At a Private Home:

4:00-5:30 pm: Sarah Leah Chase, New England Open House Cookbook (ticketed event)

In the Atheneum Garden:

9:00 am-3:30 pm: Local Author Tent and Storytimes

2:00-2:45 pm: Nancy Thayer, The Guest Cottage

3:00-3:45 pm: Sukey Forbes, The Angel in My Pocket

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 21

 
At the Brant Point Grill:

10:30 am-12:30 pm: Ishmael Beah (ticketed event)

At Cisco Brewers:

3:00-5:00 pm: Pig Roast and Wrap Party (ticketed event)

 At the NHA Whaling Museum:

6:00-8:00 pm: Nathaniel Philbrick (ticketed event)