Our 14th Annual Hudson Children’s Book Festival set for May 3rd 2025 at Columbia-Greene Community College!

Authors & Illustrators — Would you like to participate in the 2024 Festival?

If you’d like to be a participating author at the 2024 Hudson Children’s Book Festival, please complete our online application.  Participating authors and illustrators are chosen at our discretion and each applicant will be notified of their status whether accepted or not. If you are not chosen as a participating author, you will be placed on a wait list. The deadline for applying is February 16, 2024.

Look Who’s Attending in 2025!

Go to the Authors and Illustrators page to learn more about them!

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🌟📚 Thank you to the Hudson Children's Book Festival for bringing an incredible celebration of stories and creativity to the Columbia-Greene campus this past Saturday!

With over 2,000 attendees, it was a fantastic day filled with laughter, learning, and a shared love of reading. A special thanks to the authors, illustrators, and volunteers who made it all possible! 📚✨

📚 The festival aims to inspire a love of reading by connecting children with world-class authors and illustrators through free community events. To learn more about the festival, visit hudsonchildrensbookfestival.org.

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The Museum team had a blast at this year's Hudson Children's Book Festival! We loved visiting with everyone and giving out fun goodies inspired by the ever-popular Curious George 🐵

Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by, and thank you to all of the wonderful folks who made this event possible 📚❤️
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2025 Poster!

Our 2025 poster is now available — click to view/download.

Hudson Talbott reading at the Hudson Childrens Book Festival

Support the Festival!

You can donate to the festival from our Donate Button! Thank you for your support!

Authors at the Hudson NY Childrens Book Festival

Fun Facts

Did You Know?
The Hudson Children’s Book Festival is one of the biggest book festivals in New York State!

Authors attending the Hudson Childrens book festival held each May in Hudson NY

Listen to our Festival Song!

Junior High School music teacher, Marylou Knull and a group of talented Jr/Sr High students wrote the lyrics and music for the official Hudson Children’s Book Festival song, Inside a Book, and recorded it at Henry Hirsch’s Waterfront Recording Studio! Click the link to listen!