The 2012 Fox Cities Reads is underway! Pick up a copy of Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland at your local library and join in community-wide discussions about the book. The author will visit the Fox Cities April 16-18 during the Fox Cities Book Festival.
Thanks go out to our wonderful 2011 sponsors!
FCBF official booksellers:
Our family is proud to be the Honorary Family Chair for the 2012 Fox Cities Book Festival. When we were approached to serve as family ambassadors for the Festival, we were thrilled to play the role. Our family’s love of reading and our belief in the Festival’s role in bonding and enriching our community made taking on this commitment easy for us.
All of us are avid readers, including our 4 children. Joseph is 19 and a freshman at Middlebury College in Vermont where he is relishing magnificent courses in literature. Grace is 17 and a junior at Xavier High School and tries to sneak moments under a blanket for some reading for escape from the rigors of high school life. Bridget is 15 and a sophomore at Xavier and loves to read stories of real people and their adventures and struggles. Last, but not least, is Curren who is 10, in 5th grade at Odyssey Charter School in Appleton and devours books, especially fantasy, inspired by the Harry Potter series.
Reading has always played a critical role in our family. We believe it is a cornerstone of our children’s education as well as a lifelong pastime and means of personal enrichment. It brings the world of reading and its wonders right to our door. The Festival is also an incredible opportunity for the community to deepen its sense of community. We have been blessed by all of the events presented in the Fox Cities that make this a great place to live. However, the Book Festival is unique in the way the conversations it inspires deepen more fully our connections with other community members. Our lives and our entire region is stronger for this.
We hope that everyone participates in the Fox Cities Book Festival in some way in 2012. Your life will be richer for it! Happy reading!
Dan and Beth Flaherty
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one of the Fox Cities Book Festival's official booksellers, is proud to present internationally acclaimed author Jodi Picoult on March 10, 2012 at 7:00PM at the Radisson Hotel, Green Bay, WI. Tickets are $38.00 and include a hardcover copy of Jodi’s latest novel, The Lone Wolf – due for release February 28, 2012. Books will be available for pickup at the show. Jodi will perform a reading from her work; conduct a Q&A with the audience, followed by a personal signing of The Lone Wolf.
Register for the event and join us in supporting a Festival partner!
Thanks to everyone who attended the Gordon Korman event at Neenah Public Library. What a great way to get things rolling for the 2012 Book Festival! Here is a video clip of some of the question and answer period after his presentation. Enjoy!
Author Gordon Korman is coming to the Fox Cities! Gordon will be speaking at the Neenah Public Library on Thursday, February 2, 5:00pm. Teachers, parents, librarians & interested students welcome! Apple Blossom Books will sell copies of Gordon's books. There will be an announcement of authors currently scheduled to appear at the Fox Cities Book Festival in April. Be sure to join us for this special event. Free and open to the public. Free refreshments. http://gordonkorman.com/
Check out Kara Patterson's Word of Art Column in the Post Crescent where she interviews members of the Fox Cities Book Festival's Author Committee. The Committee has announced that New York Times bestseller Carol Higgins Clark, author of the Regan Reilly mystery series, will be coming to the Fox Cities for the 2012 Festival. Check out the authors page to see the authors who are confirmed so far!
Big thanks go to Atlas Coffee Mill for hosting monthly meetings for the Fox Cities Book Festival Board! We appreciate your support of the Festival and just can't thank you enough for providing a welcoming meeting space for us to plan and dream.