Book Festival
8th Annual Book Festival​
Saturday, February 28, 2026 @ 10am - 2pm
200 W Oak Ave, Visalia, CA 93277
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Tulare County Library is hosting our 8th annual Book Festival 10 am - 2pm on Saturday, February, 28, 2026!
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Mark your calendars!
Details coming soon!
The library is proud to continue our annual tradition of growing literacy and connectivity in our community with the Book Festival. This festival includes author events, story telling, community partners, vendors, food trucks, the Friends of the Tulare County Library book sale, and more. This FREE festival features books and fun for all ages.
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Interested in being a sponsor or exhibitor?
More information coming soon!
​Check out what happened during our
previous book festivals:
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2022 Mystery Book Festival
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2019 Book Festival (YouTube link)
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2018 Book Festival (Vimeo link)
More Information Coming Soon!
Featured Author
Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels, including Wild Dreamers, a Pura Belpré Honor book that was also long listed for the National Book Award. Wings in the Wild received an International Latino Book Award Gold Medal, and The Surrender Tree, received a Newbery Honor.
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Other awards includes Pura Belpré Medals, Walter Honors, Américas Awards, a Jane Addams Award, a PEN U.S.A. Award, and the NSK Neustadt Prize. Margarita served as the national 2017-2019 Young People's Poet Laureate. Her newest picture books include Hopeful Heroes and Christiana Figueres, Friend of the Rain Forest. Her most recent verse novels are Island Creatures and Evamar.
Margarita was born in Los Angeles, but developed a deep attachment to her mother's homeland during childhood summers with relatives on the island. She studied agronomy and botany along with creative writing, and now lives in central California with her entomologist husband and soccer playing Border Collie.
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