Welcome to the 2026 Tucson Festival of Books Children Teen event schedule! We are excited about this year's presenting authors and have placed the schedule into a compact, color-coded grid that you may use to organize your visit to the Festival. Click a button below and your events and then scroll down - your events will display below.
Events for Children Events for Teens
Click the title of an event to obtain detailed information about that event including a short description, the moderator and details on each panelist. The schedule is subject to change and will be updated as new information is made available. Remember that a printed version of this information will be available in the Arizona Daily Star on the Sunday before the festival. Don't forget to check out our other Entertainment and Author Activities to round out your schedule.
Each event on this grid has a star next to it. Click a star to bookmark an event. Click it again to remove the bookmark. When you are finished, you can view your bookmarked events in a printer-ready format here.
NEW THIS YEAR: TFOB will adhere to the University's Clear bag policy for entry to an author's event; find the details here.
Sat, Mar 14 | 10:00 am | 11:30 am | 1:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 4:00 pm |
Student Union North Ballroom (Seats 670) | No event | No event | No event | No event | |
Student Union Kachina (Seats 100) | No event | Stories of Survival Elizabeth Green Judith Marro Mark and Karin Wiest | No event | No event | No event |
Student Union Santa Rita (Seats 110) | Women at the Crossroads Joi and Bianca Bowen Roberta and Bill Witchger | No event | Queer Love, Loss and Representation Joi and Bianca Bowen Roberta and Bill Witchger Jack and Katrina McNerney | No event | No event |
Student Union Sabino (Seats 87) | No event | No event | No event | Choices and Consequences Joan and Adrian Van Loozenoord Zibby Media Charlie and Janet Lynn Peggy Sharp | No event |
UA Campus Store Stage (Seats 250) | No event | Wit and Wonder Pi Beta Phi Fraternity - Arizona Alpha Chapter UA Campus Store Sandra D. Rutherford | No event | No event | No event |
Sat, Mar 14 | 10:00 am | 11:30 am | 1:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 4:00 pm |
The Commons Room 105 (Seats 217) | No event | No event | The Weight of Truth City of Tucson Visit Tucson Steve and Liz Rummage | No event | Reinvention and Reality City of Tucson Visit Tucson Ann Bowman |
UA Mall Tent (Seats 250) | Family Matters Pepper Viner Homes Stephen Golden and Susan Tarrence Robert and Lori Shaw Steve and Liz Rummage | No event | No event | No event | No event |
Sun, Mar 15 | 10:00 am | 11:30 am | 1:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 4:00 pm |
Arizona Daily Star Stage (Seats 250) | No event | No event | No event | No event | Fractured Politics, Shattered Lives Arizona Daily Star |
Student Union North Ballroom (Seats 670) | No event | No event | No event | No event | |
Student Union Tucson Room (Seats 110) | Conscience and Consequence Frank Mascia and Barbro Drott Huth Pima Foundation Womble Bond Dickinson | No event | No event | No event | No event |
Student Union Santa Rita (Seats 110) | No event | No event | Desert Dreams: Escapes and Reinvention Joi and Bianca Bowen Roberta and Bill Witchger | No event | No event |
Student Union Sabino (Seats 87) | No event | Control and the Speculative Imagination Joan and Adrian Van Loozenoord Zibby Media Susan Eck | No event | Love and the Stories We Tell Joan and Adrian Van Loozenoord Zibby Media Chuck and Carol Otto | No event |
Sun, Mar 15 | 10:00 am | 11:30 am | 1:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 4:00 pm |
The Commons Room 105 (Seats 217) | No event | No event | Trauma, Memory and Truth City of Tucson Visit Tucson Jane Q. Peterson | Chaos, Comedy, Reality City of Tucson Visit Tucson Holly and Steve Shenitzer Mesch Clark Rothschild | No event |
Koffler Room 204 (Seats 300) | No event | No event | No event | No event | |
Koffler Room 216 (Seats 89) | No event | No event | No event | Tomorrow’s Bestsellers Today Research Corporation for Science Advancement Sundt Construction, Inc. | No event |
Koffler Room 218 (Seats 142) | No event | No event | Stories of Self Bourn Companies Lex and Carol Sears Philanthropic Fund Martha A. Boose | No event | Humor, Heart and the Darkly Surreal Bourn Companies Lex and Carol Sears Philanthropic Fund Andy Watson |
Integrated Learning Center Room 125AB (Seats 40) | No event | No event | Workshop: The Power of Place Words, Women, and Wine Book Club | No event | No event |
Sun, Mar 15 | 10:00 am | 11:30 am | 1:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 4:00 pm |
UA Library/Special Collections (Seats 110) | No event | Meet Luis Alberto Urrea University of Arizona Libraries University of Arizona Press Jack and Katrina McNerney | No event | No event | No event |
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