Miami Book Fair

We are planning a field trip to the Miami Book Fair! We will meet at a central location and carpool to the event. Please be fairly certain about attending since you will be taking someone's space in the car/van. The Fair runs November 8 - 15, 2009 and the Street Fair runs November 13 - 15. If anyone wants to go on multiple days, let me know. Admission to the Street Fair on Saturday, November 14 and Sunday, November 15 is $8.00 per person. Tickets may only be purchased at the entrance gates. Parking garages in Miami charge about $10. The Fair site is at www.miamibookfair.com/about/default.aspx. There will be hundreds of authors and millions of books. About the Fair: The Fair, in its 26th year, will open Sunday November 8th 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 350 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. Comix Galaxy is back this year, with a school of comics on Friday 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 of signed first editions, original manuscripts and other collectibles.