Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival
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Learn about the history of the Kaigler Festival in An Historical Analysis of the Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival by Southern Miss School of Library and Information Science alum Leah Rials.
The Festival is proud to host the Coleen Salley Storytelling Lecture, the Ezra Jack Keats Award and The Magnolia Book Awards.
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Tentative Upcoming Festival Dates:
April 10-12, 2024
April 9-11, 2025
April 8-10, 2026
March 3-5, 2027
Credits
- Dr. Stacy Creel (Chair)
- Ellen Ruffin
- Ann Sanders
- Dr. Eric Tribunella
- Venetia Oglesby
- Don Tate
- Dr. Jaime Naidoo
- Angie Manfredi
- Phil Bildner
- Hanna Lee
- Ramona Caponegro
- Stacy Creel, Chair, Southern Miss SLIS
- Sarah Mangrum, Southern Miss SLIS
- Karlie Herndon, University Libraries
- Mary Osborne, Southern Miss SLIS
1969 Lois Lenski
1970 Ernest H. Shepard
1971 Roger Duvoisin
1972 Marcia Brown
1973 Lynd Ward
1974 Taro Yashima
1975 Barbara Cooney
1976 Scott O’Dell
1977 Adrienne Adams
1978 Madeleine L’Engle
1979 Leonard Everett Fisher
1980 Ezra Jack Keats
1981 Maurice Sendak
1982 Beverly Cleary
1983 Katherine Paterson
1984 Peter Spier
1985 Arnold Lobel
1986 Jean Craighead George
1987 Paula Fox
1988 Jean Fritz
1989 Lee Bennett Hopkins
1990 Charlotte Zolotow
1991 Richard Peck
1992 James Marshall
1993 Quentin Blake
1994 Ashley Bryan
1995 Tomie de Paola
1996 Patricia MacLachlan
1997 Eric Carle
1998 Elaine Konigsburg
1999 Russell Freedman
2000 David Macaulay
2001 Virginia Hamilton
2002 Rosemary Wells
2003 Lois Lowry
2004 Jerry Pinkney
2005 Kevin Henkes
2006 Walter Dean Myers
2007 Eve Bunting
2008 Pat Mora
2009 Judy Blume
2010 David Wiesner
2011 T.A. Barron
2012 Jane Yolen
2013 Jon Scieszka
2014 Christopher Paul Curtis
2015 Paul O. Zelinsky
2016 Jacqueline Woodson
2017 Kate DiCamillo
2018 Dav Pilkey
2019 Tamora Pierce
2020 Rita Williams-Garcia
2021 Andrea Davis Pinkney
2022 Brian Selznick
2023 Gene Luen Yang
2024 Cynthia Leitich Smith