KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" & "The Giver"

Children's Books Author & Illustrator Known for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

Award-Winning Children's Author & Illustrator Known for "Thank You, Mr. Falker"; Dyslexia & Learning Disabilities Advocate

#1 New York Times Best Selling Author, Award-Winning Children's Musician & Original Author of the "Pete the Cat" Series

Cowboy and Author; Best Known for his Classic Children’s Series, "Hank the Cowdog"

Author's of the Children's Book Series "Dork Diaries" & The Misadventures of Max Crumbly

Best-Selling Author of the "Goosebumps" Series; Emmy-Award Winning TV Show & Film Producer

Author, Editor & Writer of Fantasy, Science Fiction & Children's Books

Children's Author & Anti-Bullying Advocate

Newbery Medal-Winning Children's Book Author

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

Author & Illustrator of Children's Books; Best Known for "The Polar Express"

Children's Book Author; President & CEO at Compendium Inc.

MIT Engineer, Emmy-nominated TV Host, Author

Associate Director & Dissemination Director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco

Best-selling Author; Contributing Correspondent, NBC's Today; Chair, UNICEF's Next Generation and Editor-at-Large, Southern Living Magazine

Canadian Journalist & Author of Mystery Novels

American writer and illustrator of children's pop-up books

New York Times Best-Selling Author & Cancer Survivor

Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.