It was a splendid year for the annual Children’s Festival!  The weather was warm and breezy, the ice cream sweet and melty.  All the booths were busy, the lines moved quickly, performers entertained energetically, and the dragons, Rosabelle and Pebbles, ate noisily (and gratefully.)  There was magic in the air.  At the Storytelling Tree, many stories were read or told to entranced audiences of all ages.  And, at the Library Book Booth, more than 440 kids from one to ninety-one voted for their favorite book. 

And the Winners Are......

Non-fiction:	Junior Fiction:	Favorite Outstanding Children’s Book of the 2008 Children’s Festival:
Where the Sidewalk Ends	Dinosaurs Before Dark	Skippyjon Jones
by Shel Silverstein	(Magic Tree House Series) by Mary Pope Osborne	by Judith Schachner