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 |
Culinary Stage (Seats 265) | No event | Salsa Daddy Arizona Appliance and Home JT Kasper | Reclaiming Indigenous Cuisine Arizona Appliance and Home Stuart and Andy Shatken | No event | Truly Texas Mexican Plant-Based Cooking Arizona Appliance and Home Michael and Marjorie Lipson |
Nuestras Raíces Stage (Seats 150) | Indigenous Storytellers Pima County Public Library | Versed in Resilience: Latinx Poetry Pima County Public Library | Carrying Home: Migration Memories Pima County Public Library | Borderlore: Narrativas de la Frontera Pima County Public Library Evelyn Carrillo Walls and Henry Walls | ¡Ay, Amor!: Latinxs in Love Pima County Public Library |
Sun, Mar 15 | 10:00 am | 11:30 am | 1:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 4:00 pm |
Nuestras Raíces Stage (Seats 150) | Sana Sana: Healing Through Heritage Pima County Public Library | Food and Culture: Hay Comida en la Casa Pima County Public Library | La Lucha Sigue: Resistance in Fiction Pima County Public Library | Once Upon a Cuento Pima County Public Library | Viva Tucson: Tucsonense History in Focus Pima County Public Library |
Integrated Learning Center Room 125AB (Seats 40) | Workshop: Reeling Readers In Words, Women, and Wine Book Club | No event | No event | No event | No event |
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