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 |
Arizona Daily Star Stage (Seats 250) | No event | Mars Madness Arizona Daily Star | No event | No event | No event |
UA Campus Store Stage (Seats 250) | No event | No event | No event | Undiscovered Country Pi Beta Phi Fraternity - Arizona Alpha Chapter UA Campus Store Susan and John Madden | American Icons Pi Beta Phi Fraternity - Arizona Alpha Chapter UA Campus Store Ellen Bodow |
Integrated Learning Center Room 120 (Seats 300) | No event | No event | No event | No event | |
UA Library/Special Collections (Seats 110) | Celluloid West University of Arizona Libraries University of Arizona Press Lucy Masterman | History, Conflict and the Americas University of Arizona Libraries University of Arizona Press Sally Garnaat | Untold Stories University of Arizona Libraries University of Arizona Press Brenda Quick | 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 | America 250: Meet Paul Revere Arizona Daily Star | Who Was Amelia Earhart, Really? Arizona Daily Star | No event | No event |
Student Union North Ballroom (Seats 670) | No event | No event | No event | No event | |
Integrated Learning Center Room 120 (Seats 300) | No event | No event | No event | No event | |
Integrated Learning Center Room 130 (Seats 143) | No event | No event | No event | No event | Gaining Freedom Sara Cohen The Neymeyer Family Margaret Lent |
UA Library/Special Collections (Seats 110) | The Real Work Behind Great Events University of Arizona Libraries University of Arizona Press Wick Communications | Meet Luis Alberto Urrea University of Arizona Libraries University of Arizona Press Jack and Katrina McNerney | Adventures in Writing University of Arizona Libraries University of Arizona Press Barbara and Kurt Reuter | No event | No event |
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