About the Hudson Childrens’ Book Festival
The Hudson Children’s Book Festival, established in 2009, is held each year in the historic city of Hudson, NY, and strives to create, sustain, and nurture a culture of literacy in partnership with our community and schools. This free, public event fosters a love of reading as families meet and greet world-class creators of books for children of all ages.
Our 13th Annual Hudson Children’s Book Festival set for May 4th 2024!
Look Who’s Attending the Festival!
Go to the Authors and Illustrators page to learn more about them!
Latest from Facebook!
2024 Poster!
Our 2024 poster is now available — click to view/download.
Fundraisers!
Support the Festival
Through out the year, HCBF holds fundraisers to benefit the festival. You’ll find information about them posted here and our Facebook page!
Fun Facts
Did You Know?
The Hudson Children’s Book Festival is one of the biggest book festivals in New York State!
Listen to our Festival Song!
Junior High School music teacher, Marylou Knull and a group of talented Jr/Sr High students wrote the lyrics and music for the official Hudson Children’s Book Festival song, Inside a Book, and recorded it at Henry Hirsch’s Waterfront Recording Studio! Click the link to listen!
Our entire 6th graders at Hudson Junior High are treated to a visit by author/illustrator Kayla Miller @kayke to learn about how she creates her graphic novels! Thank you to The Hudson Literacy Fund for purchasing copies of Click for all of our 6th graders! #graphicnovels #books #read ... See MoreSee Less
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TOMORROW IS THE DAY 🎉🥳
We cannot wait to see you from 10am-3pm in the Hudson Junior/Senior High! Admission is free and you will see 75+ incredible authors and illustrators, along with dozens of excellent community organizations.
The book festival truly is our favorite day of the year, we can't wait to see you there!
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John Patrick Green is here at Montgomery C. Smith Elementary School signing copies of Agents of Suit for all of our 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders today! Thank you to The Hudson Literacy Fund for purchasing these for all of our students! #books #graphicnovels #read #hudsonny ... See MoreSee Less
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We want to give a huge shoutout to the HTA for their support of the Hudson Children's Book Festival! This event is the result of the hard work of teachers, support staff, and more. Thank you so much for your time and generosity in helping to make the book festival the best day of the year! We appreciate you! ... See MoreSee Less
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We're so happy to have Debbie Dadey joining us on Saturday!
Writing can be super fun when it’s about dragons and mermaids! Debbie Dadey’s newest books are The Dolphin Dream (mermaids and dolphins-super fun!) and Dragons Don’t Cook Pizza (two of her favorite things!) She hopes you’ll stop by her table at the book festival to tell her which is better: mermaids or dragons!
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I'm so excited!! Looking forward to sitting with graphic novelist Angeli Rafer Art! The people of Hudson Valley NY are so welcoming!
New this year in our author room is an area we’re calling “Creation Station” where paper and various drawing utensils will be for kids to use their imagination! Maybe a participating illustrator will join in the fun too!
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Thank you for using my idea. I plan to put down my camera and maybe draw a few pictures myself.
Celia Holmes
Here it is!! The author TABLE MAP for this Saturday!!
Scope out where your favorite authors will be ahead of time!
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Thank you so much to our sponsor, Friends of the Hudson Area Library (Hudson Area Library Friends Friends of the Hudson Area Library), for your support of the Hudson Children's Book Festival! We appreciate your generosity and support of the festival!
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We are so excited to see Rajani LaRocca (@rajanilarocca) this weekend!
Rajani LaRocca was born in India, raised in Kentucky, and now lives in the Boston area, where she practices medicine and writes award-winning books for young readers, including the Newbery Honor winning middle grade novel in verse, Red, White, and Whole. She’s always been an omnivorous reader, and now she is an omnivorous writer of fiction and nonfiction, novels and picture books, prose and poetry. She finds inspiration in her family, her childhood, the natural world, math, science, and just about everywhere she looks.
See you Saturday!
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