National Book Festival

The 2023 Library of Congress’s National Book Festival celebrating “Everyone Has a Story,” on Saturday, August 12, 2023 at the Convention Center in Washington D.C., was a big success, attracting a larger crowd than in 2022.  All of the 54 Centers for the Book selected a children’s book and one for an adult audience to represent their state or territory read more

The Library of Congress held its National Book Festival in person this year on Saturday September 3, 2022 in Washington DC for the first time since 2019. This year’s Festival features more than 120 authors, poets and writers to celebrate the festival theme, “Books Bring Us Together.” Every year each of the Affiliate Centers for the Book chooses a children’s read more

The theme for this year’s Library of Congress virtual festival was “Open a Book, Open the World” and featured live author conversations every day. On Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. ET, 35 video-on-demand programs became available to watch anytime. This year’s Festival also featured interactive presentations with Library of Congress experts, a national television special and related events on PBS, read more

The 20th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival celebrated American Ingenuity with presentations by more than 120 celebrated authors historians, and poets. About 25,000 people attended the virtual event held on September 25-27, 2020. Some of the featured authors at the virtual Festival included Jason Reynolds, Colson Whitehead, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and John Grisham. Some of the most read more

On Saturday, August 31st, The New Jersey Center for the Book exhibited in the Parade of States at the 2019 National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress, at the Convention Center in Washington, DC. Tens of thousands of people visited New Jersey’s exhibit. Many picked up the educator’s guide that accompanied the book I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg read more

The New Jersey Center for the Book was once again represented at the Parade of the States at the National Book Festival on September 2, 2018 in the Convention Center, booth 612, Washington, DC.  The 2018 Cherry Blossom Princess Sophia Czerniecki joined NJCTB Chairperson, Renee Swartz, and Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Specialist from the NJ State Library, and Junior League read more

The New Jersey Center for the Book represented the State of New Jersey for its 17th year at the annual National Book Festival in Washington D.C. on September 2nd, 2017.  An annual event not to be missed, tens of thousands of book lovers descended on the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday to enjoy the all- day literacy events read more

The New Jersey Center for the Book represented the state of New Jersey at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C sponsored by the Library of Congress on September 24, 2016. More than 120 authors from around the country and thousands of visitors flocked to the Washington Convention Center for the 16th anniversary celebration of the festival that honors Thomas read more

The New Jersey Center for the Book represented the state of New Jersey at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C sponsored by the Library of Congress on September 5, 2015. More than 175 authors from around the country and thousands of visitors flocked to the Washington Convention Center for the 15th anniversary celebration of the festival with the theme read more

New Jersey Center for the Book’s exhibit at the National Book Festival 2014 brought the theme of birds and bird conservation to the public as we celebrated NJCFB’s recent designation of New Jersey Audubon’s Cape May Bird Observatory (CMBO) a New Jersey Literary Landmark. Our book selection this year was Bayshore Summer: Finding Eden in a Most Unlikely Place by Pete read more