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 |
Integrated Learning Center Room 119 (Seats 60) | No event | No event | No event | Workshop: Where to Begin Tucson Sentinel | No event |
Science City - Main Stage (Seats 195) | Roots, Relics and Revelations JoBob Hungate Roche Tissue Diagnostics Tim and Jan Henry | Invisible Forces: From Airborne Agents to Global Poisons JoBob Hungate Roche Tissue Diagnostics Literarium Rincon Research Corporation | Science, Society and the Mind: Navigating the Future of Health and Knowledge JoBob Hungate Roche Tissue Diagnostics David and Emma Blumenthal | The Strange and the Fierce: Stories from Earth’s Wild Side JoBob Hungate Roche Tissue Diagnostics Kathy Alexander and Paul Lindsey | Cosmic Questions JoBob Hungate Roche Tissue Diagnostics Donald and Karen Bachrach |
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 | Why American Healthcare Isn't Arizona Daily Star | No event |
Science City - Main Stage (Seats 195) | The Hidden Environment: What We Breathe, Drink and Hear JoBob Hungate Roche Tissue Diagnostics Richard and Deborah Baxter | Designing Tomorrow: Human Wisdom and the Promise of AI JoBob Hungate Roche Tissue Diagnostics Scot and Susan Bradley | Medicine and Meaning in Today's World JoBob Hungate Roche Tissue Diagnostics Blyth and Russell Carpenter | How We Heal JoBob Hungate Roche Tissue Diagnostics University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine | Scientific Trailblazers JoBob Hungate Roche Tissue Diagnostics Lucy Buntain Comine |
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