Reading Festival

 

Join us at the MES campus on Saturday, April 12th for the Montclair Elementary Reading Festival! Attendance is FREE and the entire community is welcome, so please invite your neighbors and friends! 

Enjoy live readings from award-winning local children's authors, carnival games, pancake breakfast, a boba/gourmet coffee cart, giant book exchange, bounce house, raffles, prizes, bake sale, and more! 📚🥞🍕🧋🎟

All children who attend will have an opportunity to win free prizes and a kid's raffle entry! 🙌

Stop by our Paws to Read room, and get an early start on the Read-a-thon with bonus minutes when you read aloud to Banni, our visiting service dog. 🦮📚

Test your skills at the book-inspired carnival games and literacy games! 🎡✍️🏆

Get creative at our Bookmaking and Bookmark making booths. 📖🔖

Author Rie Neal will lead a fun Morse Code bracelet activity inspired by her Astrid the Astronaut series 👩🏽‍🚀🚀

Join us at the cafeteria stage for author readings and student open mics. 🎤

Stage Schedule:
10:00am - 10:30am - Traci Huahn, author of Mamie Tape Fights to go to School  
10:30am - 10:55am - Aracelis Girmay, poet, MES parent, and author of What Do You Know and Kamau & Zuzu Find a Way
11:00am - 11:50am - Meera Sriram, author of Spice Box, A Garden in My Hands, Dumpling Day, A Gift for Amma
12:00pm - 12:30pm - Open Mic
12:30pm - 1:15pm - Emma Bland Smith, author of The Gardener of Alcatraz, Claude, Journey, The Pig War, Growing Up in the Shadow of Alcatraz
1:30pm - 2:00pm - Open Mic

Interested in helping to make this event a success? Sign up to volunteer - 5th graders and alumni are welcome to help, too! 🙋🏽