Virginia Youngsters’s Ebook Competition units this yr’s creator lineup

Unhealthy Kitty. The Woman Who Drank The Moon. Judy Moody. Klawde the Evil Alien Warlord Cat. These characters and lots of extra can be in Farmville this October as a part of the eleventh annual Virginia Youngsters’s Ebook Competition, held yearly on the campus of Longwood College. 

The Virginia Youngsters’s Ebook Competition has introduced its 2024 creator and illustrator lineup, crammed with award-winners, best-sellers, and festival-goer favorites from the final eleven years. 

The pageant can be held Oct. 16-18 at Longwood College in Farmville. Every day of the pageant is break up into three periods, two within the morning and one within the early afternoon. Authors and illustrators have interaction with youngsters and younger adults of all ages in extremely interactive periods designed to make studying come alive to these in attendance. Every session is free and open to all, although faculty discipline journeys have to be registered upfront.

“We now have a unbelievable lineup this yr,” mentioned Juanita Giles, pageant director. “There can be loads of new faces becoming a member of a few of our common invitees who’ve written or illustrated books which have captured the creativeness of so many youngsters, together with my very own. From the earliest readers who love Todd Parr’s colourful illustrations, to starting readers who seize Max Brallier’s Final Children on Earth graphic novels off the cabinets, to tweens who see themselves in Megan McDonald’s Judy Moody, to the younger adults who’ve worn out the sides of Daniel Nayeri’s Every thing Unhappy is Unfaithful, there’s one thing for all the things on the Virginia Youngsters’s Ebook Competition. We hope you’ll be part of us in October!”

This yr’s creator and illustrator lineup

Daniel Nayeri (center grade and younger grownup), creator of the Newbery Honor profitable e-book Every thing Unhappy is Unfaithful and lots of others.

Lillian Rivera (center grade and younger grownup), award-winning creator of 4 younger grownup novels, three center grade books, and a graphic novel for DC Comics. Her novel By no means Look Again is slated for an Amazon film adaptation.

Lamar Giles (center grade and younger grownup), VCBF alumni and award-winning creator of acclaimed novels The Getaway, The Final Final Day of Summer season, Not so Pure and Easy, and Faux ID. 

Pablo Cartaya (center grade), VCBF alumni and award-winning creator, screenwriter, and educator who has impressed 1000’s of Virginia youngsters along with his entertaining and energetic displays.

Kelly Barnhill (center grade), the Newbery Medal Successful creator of bestselling novel The Woman Who Drank the Moon. 

Karyn Parsons (center grade), finest identified for her function as Hilary Banks on The Recent Prince of Bel-Air, Parsons who has discovered a second profession as an creator with the novel How Excessive is the Moon, in addition to image books that function unsung Black heroes in historical past.

Kyla Zhao (center grade and younger grownup), creator of the celebrated novels The Fraud Squad and Could the Greatest Participant Win.

M.T. Anderson (center grade and younger grownup), award-winning creator whose books The Pox Occasion and Elf Canine and Owl Head have earned him a Nationwide Ebook Award for Younger Folks’s Literature and a Newbery Honor.

Donna Barba Higuera (elementary and center grade), award-winning creator of Lupe Wong Gained’t Dance and The Final Cuentista, she gained the Sid Fleischman Award for finest youngsters’s humor e-book of the yr.

Megan McDonald (higher elementary), the creator of the much-loved character Judy Moody, a headstrong, outspoken third-grader who, alongside together with her youthful brother “Stink” is the topic of greater than a dozen bestselling books. 

Jason Platt (higher elementary), creator and illustrator of the celebrated graphic novel collection Center College Misadventures.

Cece Bell (higher elementary), VCBF alum and creator/illustrator of the Newbery Medal profitable e-book El Deafo, in addition to different image books and graphic novels. 

Barbara McClintock (elementary and higher elementary), VCBF alum and creator and illustrator of greater than 40 books for kids, together with Adele & Simon, The Mitten, and The place’s Mommy?

Mike Curato (elementary and higher elementary), award-winning creator of all the things from image books to the ground-breaking graphic novel Flamer.

Max Brallier (higher elementary and center grade), VCBF alum and creator of the Final Children on Earth collection, which has been tailored into graphic novels and an Emmy-award profitable Netflix collection. 

Jay Cooper (higher elementary and center grade), VCBF alum and creator/illustrator of greater than 25 books for youths younger and outdated, together with the New York Occasions bestselling collection with fellow VCBF creator Max Brallier, The Final Comics on Earth.

Todd Parr (elementary), VCBF alum and creator of greater than 60 books for kids, together with bestsellers The I Love You Ebook, The Earth Ebook, and The Grateful Ebook. Parr has been part of the Virginia Youngsters’s Ebook Competition since its inaugural yr.

Tim Ering (elementary), VCBF alum and celebrated illustrator/creator whose joie de vivre has made his periods terribly fashionable amongst youngsters for all 11 years of the VCBF. Greatest often known as the illustrator of Kate DiCamillo’s Newbery Medal profitable e-book The Story of Despereaux.

Johnny Marciano (higher elementary and center grade), VCBF alum and New York Occasions bestselling creator of the Klawde collection of illustrated chapter books. He’s about to launch the primary installment in a brand new middle-grade collection.

Darcie Little Badger (higher elementary and center grade), Lipan Apache author whose critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time journal as among the best 100 fantasy books of all time.

Jonathan Roth (elementary and higher elementary), creator and illustrator of the Rover and Speck,  and Beep and Bob graphic novel collection set in area.

Nick Bruel (elementary and higher elementary), creator and illustrator of the uber-popular Unhealthy Kitty books, that are staples on the New York Occasions bestseller lists. 

Russell Ginns (elementary and higher elementary), VCBF alum and author who makes a speciality of puzzles, songs, and sensible enjoyable, which led to the creation of the Samantha Spinner collection and 1-2-3- Scream.

Malik 16 (hip-hop program), VCBF alum and “Rapper-in-Residence” who has labored with the pageant’s signature Hip-Hop in Youngsters’s Literature program from its inception. He’s the creator of graphic novels, poetry, and movie books. 

The total schedule for the eleventh annual Virginia Youngsters’s Ebook Competition can be launched later this summer season.

What’s the Virginia Youngsters’s Ebook Competition?

The Virginia Youngsters’s Ebook Competition is likely one of the premier literary occasions for younger individuals on the East Coast. In 2023, it was honored with a Library of Congress Literacy Award for its work of implementing profitable practices in literacy promotion. Annually, greater than 10,000 youngsters attend its signature three-day occasion, held in October at Longwood College in Farmville, the place they attend interactive periods with bestselling and award-winning authors and illustrators of books for younger individuals. The Virginia Youngsters’s Ebook Competition is freed from cost.