Come dressed as your favorite character and compete for first prize: a $100 Joseph-Beth gift card! All ages are invited to participate. The costume contest will be judged by four authors of books for kids: Kristin O’Donnell Tubb, Shawn Pryor, Julie Whitney, and Laura Krantz. Join us lakeside behind Joseph-Beth to participate. Please arrive a few minutes early to check-in.
Don’t forget to ask a book festival volunteer about a free book voucher for kids 12 years old and under! Visit dozens of authors of books for pre-K through middle grade readers in the big white tent.
No purchase or registration is required to participate in this activity at the Kentucky Book Festival on October 29.
Author + Speaker Lineup
Shawn Pryor’s (he/him) work includes the hi/lo reader series THE GAMER (Capstone), the middle-grade graphic novel THE DEADLIEST RACE (Capstone), the middle-grade graphic novel series Cash and Carrie, the 2019 Glyph Nominated sports graphic novel Force, several books for Capstone’s Jake Maddox Sports and Adventure series, and the upcoming graphic novel FAST BREAK with artist Courtney Hahn in 2023 from FSG/Macmillan.
Julie Whitney is a public relations professional with forty years of experience in public relations and marketing, having worked on both the agency and client side as well as in the television industry. Her company, Phillippi-Whitney Communications, LLC, founded in 2000, represents both large and small clients in a wide variety of industries.
Laura Krantz is a print and audio journalist whose critically acclaimed podcast Wild Thing explores the intersection between science and society. She spent ten years as an editor and producer with NPR in Washington, D.C. and KPCC in Los Angeles, and her work has appeared in Smithsonian, Outside, and Popular Science.
Kristin O’Donnell Tubb is the author of The Decomposition of Jack, Luna Howls at the Moon, Zeus Dog of Chaos, The Story Collector series, and A Dog Like Daisy. Kristin lives near Nashville, Tennessee with her bouncy-loud family. Just like her two dogs, she can be bribed with cheese.
