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) | Adventures at the Edge of Everything Elizabeth Green Judith Marro Lynn and Mark Thomas | No event | No event | Creating Worlds That Breathe Elizabeth Green Judith Marro Rita and Dane Zeller | No event |
Student Union Santa Rita (Seats 110) | No event | Burn It All Down Joi and Bianca Bowen Roberta and Bill Witchger | No event | No event | No event |
Student Union Sabino (Seats 87) | No event | How To Heal a Heart Joan and Adrian Van Loozenoord Zibby Media | No event | No event | No event |
The Commons Room 105 (Seats 217) | No event | No event | No event | Dark Entities City of Tucson Visit Tucson | No event |
Sat, Mar 14 | 10:00 am | 11:30 am | 1:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 4:00 pm |
Koffler Room 204 (Seats 300) | No event | No event | No event | No event | |
Koffler Room 218 (Seats 142) | A Little Attitude and a Lot of Swagger Bourn Companies Lex and Carol Sears Philanthropic Fund Mary and Robert | No event | No event | No event | No event |
Integrated Learning Center Room 130 (Seats 143) | No event | No event | No event | No event | Our World, Shifted Sara Cohen The Neymeyer Family Nick Soloway and Kay Ransdell |
Integrated Learning Center Room 125AB (Seats 40) | No event | No event | Workshop: The Art of the Pitch 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 |
Student Union Tucson Room (Seats 110) | No event | No event | Darkness Abounds Frank Mascia and Barbro Drott Huth Pima Foundation | No event | No event |
Student Union Kachina (Seats 100) | No event | Magic, Misfits and Connection Elizabeth Green Judith Marro Ruth Russell | No event | Laughing Along the Way Elizabeth Green Judith Marro Jean Orrico | No event |
UA Campus Store Stage (Seats 250) | No event | No event | Barely Surviving (and Loving It) Pi Beta Phi Fraternity - Arizona Alpha Chapter UA Campus Store | No event | No event |
Koffler Room 204 (Seats 300) | No event | No event | No event | No event | |
Koffler Room 216 (Seats 89) | No Easy Choices Research Corporation for Science Advancement Sundt Construction, Inc. | 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 |
Koffler Room 218 (Seats 142) | Rotten to the Core Bourn Companies Lex and Carol Sears Philanthropic Fund Linda and Rick Hanson | No event | No event | No event | No event |
UA Mall Tent (Seats 250) | No event | No event | No event | No event | Confessions of a Writer Pepper Viner Homes Stephen Golden and Susan Tarrence James and Sandra Rothschild |
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