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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.

Be sure to like the Kaigler Festival on Facebook to get all the latest Kaigler Festival news. Email announcements are sent via Constant Contact- email mary.a.osborneFREEMississippi to get added to the email list!

Tentative Upcoming Festival Dates:

April 10-12, 2024
April 9-11, 2025
April 8-10, 2026
April 7-9, 2027
April 19-21, 2028

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

 

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Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival

Southern Miss SLIS
118 College Dr. #5146
Hattiesburg, MS 39406

Hattiesburg Campus

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Email
stacy.creelFREEMississippi

Phone
601.266.4228