Celebrating the Joy of Reading

What do U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, film-maker Ken Burns, best-selling novelist Jodi Picoult, and the Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library have in common?
We will all be at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. at the end of September. (We are also all residents of the Granite State).

For the fifth year, the NH Center for the Book will host a table in the Pavillion of the States. This year we will be distributing information about the NH Center for the Book, tourism information on NH, and -- thanks to Candlewick Press -- an excerpt from Evangeline Mudd and the Great Mink Escapade by David Elliott.

Judy Schachner, winner of the 2005 Ladybug Picture Book Award, will also be at the Festival.