Whether you‘re the parent of a child just learning her ABC‘s or a teenager in love with the hottest fantasy series, Miami Book Fair has something for you. For more than three decades, the Fair has been committed to fostering a love of reading in children. Why? Because studies show what we all know – good readers become good students, lifelong learners, and great citizens.

GENERATION GENIUS gathers the Fair‘s literacy and learning programs for children and teens and brings them all under one banner. All year long, Miami Book Fair‘s Generation Genius programs, such as Read to Learn Books for Free and StoryArts, distributes thousands of free children‘s books around Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

The Fair, in its 32nd year, will open Sunday November 15th with the popular Evenings With… series, featuring six nights of readings and discussions with noted authors from the United States and around the world. On Friday, the Street Fair gets under way. The highlight of the Street Fair is the Festival of Authors, with more than 450 authors reading and discussing their work, including the Latin American and Spanish authors who participate in the IberoAmerican Authors Program. Thousands of South Florida schoolchildren will help kick off the Street Fair, making the trip downtown Friday to hear authors and participate in Children’s Alley activities, including theater, arts-and-crafts, storytelling and readings by children’s book authors. Comics and graphic novels are once again featured, and a new section just for kids and teens, as well as presentations over the weekend by renowned graphic novelists and illustrators. During Street Fair weekend, more than 250 publishers and booksellers exhibit and sell books, with special features like the antiquarians, who showcase signed first editions, original manuscripts and other collectibles.

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DON’T MISS THESE WEEKEND EVENTS IN THE CHILDREN‘S ALLEY!

Ages 4-8 Anything is Possible with a Little Yoga / Wembly Wordsmith’s Storytorium! Susan Verde shows kids that yoga expands the heart and the mind, opening the doors for creativity and limitless imagination, in I Am Yoga.

Ages 3-7 Rocket the dog is back! / Wembly Wordsmith’s Storytorium! Everyone’s favorite dog, Rocket, is back for another lesson in writing and reading—and he brought all his friends! Practice your ABC’s with Tad Hills’ R is for Rocket: An ABC Book.

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