Contact: Mia Wenjen
Read Your World
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Newton, MA
September 2, 2026
News Release
For Immediate Release
Meet 100+ Children’s and Young Adult Authors
at the 3rd Annual Newton Children’s Book Festival
(NEW LOCATION!)
(Newton, MA) – The 3rd annual Newton Children’s Book Festival will be held on Sunday, November 15th, 2026, from 11 am to 3 pm, featuring 100+ authors and illustrators! It also has a new location at American Legion Nonantum Post 440 at 295 California Street in the village of Nonantum in Newton.
The Newton Children’s Book Festival will showcase more than 100 authors and illustrators of children’s and young adult books. Attendees can meet the creators, have books signed, and purchase books from the festival’s organizing partner, the Toadstool Bookshops. There will also be a craft table for kids. This is a free event.
“We are thrilled to be adding Young Adult authors for the first time, thanks to Jean Stehle, a Newton Middle School librarian and one of the members of our organizing team. She noticed that we have many middle school attendees who read middle grade and young adult voraciously,” says Mia Wenjen, President of Read Your World.
“Author festivals are special because they give young readers the chance to meet the creators behind the books they love. That’s when stories become more than words on a page—they become personal connections that can take a child’s love of reading and learning to another level,” says David A. Kelly, a member of the Newton Children’s Book Festival organizing committee.
This year, Sweet Tomatoes will be selling pizza at the event and will accept cash and Venmo. American Legion Nonantum Post 440 offers ample parking with 125 spaces in front of the building, as well as additional street parking. (Parking map here). The new location is also wheelchair accessible with an elevator.
Sponsors include:
- Super Platinum Level: The Drucker Group;
- Platinum Level: Jackson Walnut Park School;
- Gold Level: The Village Bank, Bright Horizons, Massachusetts Center for the Book, Belmont Day School, Bookcase Factory Outlet, Peter Sachs Architect;
- Community Partners: Friends of the Newton Free Library, Catching Joy, Belmont World Film’s Family Festival, West Newton Cinema Foundation
For more information, visit the Newton Children’s Book Festival website at newtonchildrensbookfest.com and see the list of participating authors.
Read Your World, a Newton-based nonprofit, promotes literacy through diverse books. They believe that every child deserves to see themselves in the stories they read and to understand the world through the perspective of others. Read Your World is the creator and organizer of The Newton Children’s Book Festival. To learn more, go to ReadYourWorld.org.