Megan McDonald is the author of the best-selling and award-winning Judy Moody series and the Stink series. She is also the author of The Sisters Club books, Ant and Honey Bee: A Pair of Friends at Halloween, and many other books for children. She lives in Sebastopol, California.

Come visit the Charles M. Schulz Museum at the Sonoma County Book Festival. Learn to draw Scooby Doo and Tom and Jerry with Hanna-Barbera artist Bob Singer. Draw Disney princesses with former Disney animator Kim Dwinell, and make your own paper toys with the Toymaker, Marilyn Scott-Waters. Also create comic strips and cartoons with artists J.H. Everett and JR Johnson.

Wooley Cats Musical Theater
Join Dennis Hysom for a rollicking good time at the Book Festival! His interactive approach will have children of all ages singing and clapping along with the show.

Marcella Ronan, bilingual storyteller
Marcela grew up in Colombia, where she studied Early Childhood Education and Dance. Four winds took her to North America, where she has expanded her learning to other areas, including Waldorf pedagogy and health. She has performed in Chicago, San Diego, Sacramento, and in Santa Rosa with The Imaginist Collective Theater.  She writes many of her stories, and also aspires to honor and spread the work of poets and writers not so well known in this area. Her last work was Cuentos de Encanto, a night of bilingual stories, poems and songs honoring the beloved Argentinean writer Marie Elena Walsh. She resides in Santa Rosa with her husband James and their two amazing daughters.

Michael E. Ross, author and naturalist (photo attached)
Michael Elsohn Ross is the award-winning author of more than 40 books for young people, including the popular picture books Snug as a Bug, Mama’s Milk, and Play with Me. Ross’s work as a naturalist in Yosemite has inspired him to write books that actively invite kids to wonder and explore.

Magical Moonshine Theater
The internationally acclaimed, award-winning Magical Moonshine Theater will offer both a bilingual puppet performance and an interactive puppet-making workshop at the Book Festival. The Magical Moonshine Theater has headlined festivals coast to coast in the United States, and has performed in more than 15 countries throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. The Theater’s director studied with the late Jim Henson of the Muppets.

Fratello Marionettes
The Fratello Marionettes began entertaining audiences in 1989 by bringing the ancient art of marionettes to audiences throughout the world. The performers produce high quality marionette shows using the “cabaret style” of manipulation. In this truly American style, the puppet and puppeteer perform in full view of the audience.

The Fratello Marionettes will perform 'The Vaudeville Follies,' presented in the spirit of the old time music hall. The show is filled with sophisticated marionettes ranging in size from one foot to three feet tall! The performance includes singers, dancers, clowns, classical trick marionettes, and a trained dog, Puddles.

Mary Fisk Pack
Mary Fisk Pack has been an elementary school teacher for more than twenty years. She writes curricula, but what she really loves to write are children’s books, especially creative nonfiction picture books about interesting people, times, and places. Mary lives with her family in Northern California.

Elizabeth Singer Hunt and the
Secret Agent Jack Stalwart Treasure Hunt
Join author Elizabeth Singer Hunt for an exciting treasure hunt featuring clues from her popular Secret Agent Jack Stalwart series! Children and their families will visit stores and restaurants in Downtown Santa Rosa to solve the clues on the treasure hunt. Turn in your completed treasure hunt to be entered into a drawing for great prizes, including the complete Jack Stalwart collection

Thank you to Kid Scoop News for becoming a sponsor of the Sonoma County Book Festival. Look for the complete Secret Agent Jack Stalwart Treasure Hunt form in the August/September edition of Kid Scoop News.