MEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER BOOKWORM GARDENS Book Signing – Rocca Story Maas Teen Loft Room/ 3rd Floor Children’s Book Signing – Studio Space/ Book Signing The Secret Barn in the In the Hansel & Gretel Meeting Room Garden Learning Center 3rd Floor Children’s Room Library 3rd Floor Lower Level Theatre Atrium Area Garden Farm Garden Gardens Learning Cottage

9 *The concert is a FREE, ticketed event. Seating 4:30 - 5:15 is limited. Tickets will be Ashley Wolff & handed out at the Liz Garton Scanlon Information Desk of the “In The Canyon” with Liz 5:30 - 6:30 5:15 - 6:00 JMKAC on a fi rst come, and Ashley Ages: 5+ Ashley Wolff & fi rst served basis, Make Your Own Book FRIDAY Liz Garton Scanlon beginning at 5:30pm. Fest Travel Journal! Drop in activity. Ages: All 6:30 - 7:15 Bedtime Concert & 6:00 - 6:30 Sing-along with 7:15 - 7:45 Justin Roberts* Meet Paddington Bear Ages: 3+ Say hello & take 7:15 - 7:45 a photo! Ages: All Justin Roberts

10:00 - 10:45 10:00 - 10:45 10:00 - 4:00 10:00 - 10:45 Christian Robinson Liz Garton Scanlon 10:15 - 11:15 Make Your Own Book Stacy Tornio and Ken “Stories and Art with Picture “Wonder, Bewilderment, Ashley Wolff Fest Travel Journal! Keffer “Go Find Nature!” Book Illustrator Christian and The Great Good “The Art of Animals with Drop in activity. Ages: 5+ Robinson” Ages: 3+ Summer” Ages: 10+ Ashley Wolff” Ages: All 10:45 - 11:15 10:45 - 11:15 Hands on art-making. Stacy Tornio and 11:00 - 11:45 11:00 - 11:45 11:00 - 11:30 Christian Robinson Ages: 6+ 11:00 - 11:30 11:00 - 11:30 Ken Keffer Lita Judge Tui Sutherland Meet Llama Llama and Liz Garton Scanlon Meet Paddington Bear 11:15 - 12:00 Meet Skippyjon Jones “Journaling and Sketching “Here Be Dragons...” Say hello & take a photo! Say hello & take Ashley Wolff 11:30 - 12:15 Say hello & take a photo! 11:30 - 12:15 a photo! Ages: All Wonders From the Real Ages: 8+ Ages: All JoAnn Early Macken 10:00 - 2:00 Ages: All World” Ages: 5+ Kenn Nesbitt “Who Knew Children’s “Flip, Float, Fly!” Make Your Own Book Fest 11:45 - 12:15 Ages: 5+ 12:00 - 12:45 Books Could Be So Travel Journal! Lita Judge Drop in activity. Michael Spradlin 10:00 - 3:00 and Tui Sutherland Much Fun?” Ages: 5+ 12:30 - 1:15 12:30 - 1:15 Make Your Own Book Fest 12:30 - 1:30 12:30 - 1:00 12:15 - 1:00 Ages: All 12:30 - 1:00 12:15 - 12:45 Laura Lee Gulledge “Killer Adventures” Miranda Paul Ages: 8+ Travel Journal! Christian Robinson Meet Paddington Bear Kenn Nesbitt Meet Skippyjon Jones JoAnn Early Macken 10 “One Plastic Bag” “Getting into Graphic Drop in activity. “In the Art Studio Say hello & take Say hello & take a photo! Novels” Ages: 10+ Ages: 5+ Ages: All 12:45 - 1:15 with Christian Robinson” a photo! Ages: All Ages: All 1:00 - 1:30 Michael Spradlin Hands on art-making. Meet Llama Llama Ages: 6+ Say hello & take a photo! 1:30 - 2:15 1:30 - 2:15 Ages: All 1:15 - 1:45 1:30 - 2:15 Ashley Wolff Tricia Springstubb Miranda Paul and Lita Judge “Stories & Art with Author/ “Eyeball to Eyeball” Laura Lee Gulledge “Hands On Nature Illustrator Ashley Wolff” Ages: 7+ 2:00 - 2:45 Journaling/Sketching 2:15 - 3:00 Ages: 4+ 2:15 - 2:45 “Creating Worlds of with Lita Judge” Ages: 5+ SATURDAY 2:30 - 3:00 Lita Judge 2:30 - 3:15 Ashley Wolff and Wonder: Four Authors/ Meet Skippyjon Jones 2:30 - 3:15 Artists in Conversation with Kenn Nesbitt Ann Angel Tricia Springstubb Say hello & take a photo! “Flawed Heroes and Mitch Teich”. Featuring Ages: All “Rhyme and Punishment Liz Garton Scanlon, 2:45 - 3:45 with Kenn Nesbitt” Cautionary Tales” Liz Garton Scanlon, Ages: 12+ Tui Sutherland, Michael 3:00 - 3:30 Ages: 5+ Meet Paddington Bear Tui Sutherland, 3:30 - 4:00 3:15 - 3:45 Spradlin, and Christian Kenn Nesbitt and Robinson Say hello & take Michael Spradlin, and Meet Llama Llama Christian Robinson 3:30 - 4:15 Say hello & take a photo! Ann Angel Ages: 8+ a photo! Ages: All Laura Lee Gulledge Ages: All “Mini-Comic Workshop” Ages: 8+ 4:00 - 4:45 Group book signing session 4:15 - 4:45 featuring all available Laura Lee Gulledge authors & Illustrators. in Loft Room/3rd Floor.

10:00 - 10:45 Miranda Paul 11 10:30 - 11:30 “Water is Water Garden” Andrea Skyberg Ribbon-cutting and author “Fantastical Feathers appearance Ages: All 10:45 - 11:15 Art Making Workshop” 11:00 - 11:30 Miranda Paul Ages: 4+ 11:30 - 12:00 11:30 - 12:15 Meet Skippyjon Jones Meet Paddington Bear Andrea Skyberg Say hello & take a photo! Say hello & take Ages: All

SUNDAY a photo! Ages: All

1:30 - 2:30 1:30 - 2:30 JoAnn Early Macken Ann Angel “Lively Nonfi ction (Thanks “Do You Want to Know a to Poetry & Storytelling)” Secret?” Writing workshop Writing workshop for adults for teens. Ages: Adults Ages: Teens 2:30 - 3:00 All programs are free and open to the public. Seating is rst come, rst JoAnn Early Macken served. Book sale proceeds bene t the Sheboygan Children’s Book Festival. & Ann Angel FEATURING AUTHORS, ILLUSTRATORS & PRESENTERS WISCONSIN’S FIRST AND ONLY CHILDREN’S BOOK FESTIVAL The Sheboygan Children’s Book Festival, established in 2010, ANN ANGEL Author: ANDREA SKYBERG is presented in partnership with community volunteers and Janis Joplin, Rise Up Singing; Adopted Like Author & Illustrator: local organizations that believe in the transforming power of THE 6TH ANNUAL Me, My Book of Adopted Heroes CommuniTree; Squircle; Snickeyfritz; reading and the literary and visual arts. It is Wisconsin’s only Shimmerling free, public children’s book festival and takes place annually in October. The SCBF is a program of Sheboygan County Reads!, LAURA LEE GULLEDGE MICHAEL SPRADLIN Author: a 501(c)(3) non-profi t organization. SHEBOYGAN Author & Illustrator: Youngest Templar trilogy; Off Like the Page by Paige; Will & Whit Wind! The First Ride of the Pony Express; SPECIAL ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT CHILDREN’S Killer Species series; Into the Killing Seas THE FESTIVAL Friday Bedtime Concert and Sing-along with BOOK FESTIVAL LITA JUDGE Author & Illustrator: TRICIA SPRINGSTUBB Author: Justin Roberts Good Morning To Me!; Born in the Wild; What Happened on Fox Street; Phoebe Admission tickets are required for this free concert as seating Flight School; Red Sled; One Thousand Tracings and Digger; Moonpenny Island; Cody and is limited. Free tickets will be handed out at the John Michael the Fountain of Happiness Kohler Arts Center Information Desk beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, October 9. Tickets are fi rst come, fi rst served. JOANN EARLY MACKEN Author: TUI SUTHERLAND Author: Before the concert, the ARTcafe will offer a bedtime milk and Baby Says “Moo!”; Waiting Out the Storm; Wings of Fire series; Menagerie series; cookie special for purchase. Visit the preschool classrooms Flip, Float, Fly: Seeds on the Move Seekers and Warriors series; Spirit Animals during an open house. 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. #5: Against the Tide; Pet Trouble series; Avatars series Collectible author & illustrator trading cards Trading cards will be handed out after each author/illustrator KENN NESBITT Author & Poet: presentation, at each of our three festival venues. Collect them STACY TORNIO AND KEN KEFFER Bigfoot is Missing; Believe It or Not, My Brother all and get them autographed! Has a Monster; My Hippo Has the Hiccups; Authors: The Armpit of Doom The Kids Outdoor Adventure Book; Enter Make your own book fest travel journal at Your Own Risk; Project Garden; The A hands-on activity for all ages. Make your own travel journal Truth About Nature; We Love Nature! for this year’s book festival memories. Friday and Saturday. MIRANDA PAUL Author: PUBLIC PARKING LOTS One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Book Sales (additional parking available Women of the Gambia; Water is Water ASHLEY WOLFF Author & Illustrator: Book sales and signing events will follow author/illustrator on most streets) In The Canyon; Baby Bear Sees Blue; presentations. Book World, the 2015 SCBF bookseller, will JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER Stella and Roy Go Camping; Baby Beluga; donate 20% of festival book sale proceeds to benefi t future 608 New York Ave., Sheboygan Miss Bindergarten picture books JUSTIN ROBERTS Sheboygan Children’s Book Festivals. Your purchases help 920-458-6144 • www.jmkac.org keep this annual community event free and open to all! Author & Singer/Songwriter: MEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade Lunch is served! 710 N. 8th., Sheboygan Enjoy the cuisine of the ART cafe at the Kohler Arts Center. 920-459-3400 • www.meadpubliclibrary.org PANEL MODERATOR Open daily 10:00 a. m. – 3:00 p.m OCTOBER 9-11 2015 MITCH TEICH Moderator BOOKWORM GARDENS CHRISTIAN ROBINSON Illustrator: Early childhood activity — hands-on workshop 1415 Campus Dr., Sheboygan Rain!; Josephine; Gaston; Last Stop On Executive Producer, WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio’s Lake Effect Discover learning through creativity with your young child in 920-287-7895 • www.bookwormgardens.org Market Street; The Smallest Girl in The the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s studio lab. Saturday, Smallest Grade 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Ages: Birth – 6

Story Pirates at the Stephanie H. Weill Center LIZ GARTON SCANLON Author: Story Pirates celebrates the words and ideas of young people. In the Canyon; The Great Good Summer; A BOOK CHARACTERS The cast creates a show before your eyes from audience Sock is a Pocket for Your Toes; All the World suggestions. 3:00 p.m. FREE admission to the fi rst 100 children showing a book festival trading card.

Full Schedule SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SINCERE THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS INCLUDING: Llama Llama Paddington Bear Skippyjon Jones Explore A World of Wonders at the MEADPUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED Sheboygan Children’s Book Festival! Ann Schroeder, in Memory of Olivia Anderson • Bemis Family Foundation Book World, Sheboygan • Green Bay Packers Foundation • Kohler Foundation, Inc. Mike Wiesman Photography • Alliant Energy Foundation • Garton Family Foundation sheboyganchildrensbookfestival.org Illustration by Christian Robinson copyright © 2015 HM Graphics • Target