KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" and "The Giver"

Children's Books Author & Illustrator Known for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

#1 New York Times Best Selling Author, Award-Winning Children's Musician & Original Author of the "Pete the Cat" Series

Best-Selling Author Known for the "Goosebumps" Series

Award-Winning Children's Author & Illustrator; Dyslexia & Learning Disabilities Advocate

Cowboy and Author; Best Known for his Classic Children’s Series, "Hank the Cowdog"

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

#1 New York Times Bestselling Novelist; Adjunct Professor at Liberty University

Author & Illustrator of Children's Books; Best Known for "The Polar Express"

Author's of the Children's Book Series "Dork Diaries" & The Misadventures of Max Crumbly

Aerospace Engineer; Host & Producer of FOX's "Xploration Outer Space"

Author, Editor & Writer of Fantasy, Science Fiction & Children's Books

Associate Director & Dissemination Director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco

Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist & Author

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Children's Book Author; President & CEO at Compendium Inc.

American writer and illustrator of children's pop-up books

Award-Winning Mexican Author Known for "Faces in the Crowd"

Bestselling Author, "Creative Schools" and "The Element" (with Sir Ken Robinson) and "The Culture Code" (with Dr. Clotaire Rapaille)

New York Times Best-Selling Author & Cancer Survivor