Celebrating reading at the 2014 San Antonio Book Festival

On Saturday, my kids and I had a groovy fourth dimension at the San Antonio Book Festival at the Central Library and the Southwest School of Art.

For our family, the highlight of festival was during the presentation past Joe Cepeda, a children'southward book illustrator, when my kids made a connection betwixt the creation and the enjoyment of books.

In training for the festival, my kids and had I checked out many moving picture books past authors and illustrators who would exist appearing at the festival. (This earlier mail has tips near searching for and requesting books from the San Antonio Public Library.)

One of the books we checked out and read was Cub's Big Earth, illustrated by Cepeda. My son, F.T., was excited nearly Cub'southward quest to find his Mom in the snowy world. In a phone interview, Cepeda talked most the arts and crafts of children'southward book analogy, especially the "page turn": the anticipation of what comes on the next page. Read more of the interview in this earlier post. At the book festival, we went to run into Cepeda'south presentation in the Children'due south Reading Tent. Cepeda posted examples of his work and talked about techniques, such as using lines within the pic to draw the eye to the principal subject. (A famous example: Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper.) Cepeda admitted that he uses family unit members and erstwhile family photos as models for characters, including background players in Adjacent/Lado a Lado, a book about Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez.

When Cepeda posted a slide from Cub'due south Large Earth, F.T. started jumping up and down in his chair. He was so excited to recognize a book that he had read, and to make the connection betwixt the book and the illustrator. The human relationship betwixt reading books and creating books—to me, that is what the San Antonio Book Festival is all about.

Cepeda finished his presentation by sketching a dog using a serial of unproblematic shapes: a circle, a rectangle, a triangle, etc.

In addition to Cepeda, there were many more authors and illustrators presenting; go more ideas at "Read, heed and play at the San Antonio Volume Festival on Apr 5", Inga Cotton wool, Alamo City Moms Blog, April 2, 2014.

Also on the plaza: book-themed activities from the San Antonio Museum of Art, the San Antonio Children's Museum, and more.

Among the exhibitors were 2 lease schools: Smashing Hearts . . .

. . . and IDEA Public Schools.

We are already looking frontwards to the 2022 San Antonio Book Festival.

More perspectives on the 2014 San Antonio Book Festival:

• "San Antonio Book Festival's YA Authors", Aedan Richter, 210 Teen Library, April vii, 2014
• "San Antonio Book Festival 2014", Melissa Droegemueller, Alone Star Signers, April 7, 2014
• "Weekly Link Up for April seven – 13, 2014", Colleen Pence, San Antonio Mom Blogs, Apr seven, 2014
• "Authors, readers intersect at Book Festival", Steve Bennett, San Antonio Express-News, April 5, 2014

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