The 2023 Children’s Book Festival took place on Friday, March 31, at the Ford Center for Performing Arts. The first-grade author was Pat Zietlow Miller (In Our Garden), and the fifth-grade author was Sheila Turnage (Three Times Lucky). Miller and Turnage signed their books at 4 p.m. Friday at Square Books, Jr., located at 111 Courthouse Square. The signing was free and open to the public.
About the Children’s Book Festival
The goal of the Children’s Book Festival is to give each child a book of their own, which they will read along with classmates and their teacher during the school year. The Children’s Book Festival serves more than 1,200 area first-graders and fifth-graders from schools in Lafayette County and Oxford. Committees made up of local school librarians, teachers, and representatives from the Lafayette County Literacy Council (sponsor of the first grade), Junior Auxiliary (sponsor of the fifth grade), and Square Books, Jr. choose the book each year. The Conference then invites those authors to present programs to each grade.
Continuing Education Units for Teachers
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for teachers are offered for the Conference for the Book through the University of Mississippi’s Division of Outreach and Continuing Education.
Please address any questions about the CEU process to the Division of Outreach and Continuing Education at 662-915-7283.
The form should be returned to the following address:
The University of Mississippi
Division of Outreach and Continuing Education
, Attn: Mary Leach
, Post Office Box 1848,
University, MS 38677
