The Brooklyn Museum hosts the 14th annual Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair via Zoom this year, shining a spotlight on 39 Brooklyn authors and illustrators and offering a selection of storybooks, picture books, and graphic novels for children from preschool through the middle grades.

Once families have registered, they will receive a secure Zoom link and password by email. Families can also shop online for Book Fair books by all of the participants. All Book Fair purchases made from November 14 to December 31, 2020, include a signed bookplate and freebies.

The Schedule:

11am Eastern | 10am Central | 8am Pacific:

Author and illustrator Selina Alko reads from her picture book One Golden Rule at School: A Counting Book, which follows a diverse and inclusive group of young learners throughout a day of preschool.

11:30am Eastern | 10:30am Central | 8:30am Pacific:

Illustrator Melissa Iwai draws her characters from Soup Day, a picture book that teaches children how to make a yummy bowl of soup on a blustery winter day.

12pm Eastern | 11am Central | 9am Pacific:

Author Caron Levis reads from This Way, Charlie, which tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a blind horse and a gruff goat at the Open Bud Ranch.

12:30pm Eastern | 11:30am Central | 9:30am Pacific:

Author and illustrator Stephen Savage shows how to draw his “out-of-this-world” characters from The Babysitter from Another Planet, a picture book about a brother and sister who are left at home with an alien babysitter when their parents go out for the evening.

1pm Eastern | 12pm Central | 10am Pacific:

Author and illustrator Vashti Harrison presents the extraordinary true stories of important women creators from history as she reads from her popular picture book Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World.

1:30pm Eastern | 12:30pm Central | 10:30am Pacific:

Author and illustrator Jon Burgerman explores the many different ways we can look as he demonstrates how to draw the colorful and diverse cast of characters in his picture book Everybody Has a Body.