Previous Participants
Previous Authors & Illustrators
- Robert Arnett
- Jabari Asim
- Tonya Bolden
- Linda Boyden
- Monica Brown
- Adjoa Burrowes
- Veronica Chambers
- Anthony Emerson Chee
- Brian Collier
- Lulu Delacre
- Yvonne Wakim Dennis
- Leo and Diane Dillon
- Kani Diop
- Jean Alicia Elster
- Jennifer Elvgren
- Freddi Evans
- Shane Evans
- Dwayne Ferguson
- Edwin Fontanez
- Judtih Fradin
- Rita Williams-Garcia
- Janell Genovese
- Nikki Giovanni
- Carla Golembe
- Rigoberto Gonzalez
- Michelle Y. Green
- Elosie Greenfield
- Nikki Grimes
- Gerald Hausman
- Gabriel Horn
- Shelton Jackson
- Karen Katz
- Dolores Kendrick
- Virginia Kroll
- Cynthia Chin-Lee
- Spike Lee
- Tonya Lewis Lee
- Joseph Lekuton
- E. B. Lewis
- Marian Licha
- Grace Lin
- W. Nikola Lisa
- William Low
- Kelly Starling Lyons
- Pooja Makhijaani
- Dr. Raouf Mama
- Sonia Manzano
- Cedella Marley
- Michelle Meadows
- Tony Medina
- Robert H. Miller
- Christopher Myers
- Walter Dean Myers
- Jerdine Nolen
- Anne Sibley O'Brien
- Denise Lewis Patrick
- Frances and Ginger Park
- Linda Sue Park
- Willie Perdomo
- Mitali Perkins
- Alma Powell
- Paul Rogers
- Lina Rozbih
- Susan Secakuku
- The Honorable Carol L. Schwartz
- Mari Takabayoshi
- Gabrielle Tayac
- Gaylia Taylor
- Linda Trice
- Valerie Tripp
- Smita Turakhia
- Lynette Velasco
- Alice Walker
- Paula Wallace
- Malcolm Jamal Warner
- Donna Washington
- Laurence Yep
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Previous Performers & Special Guests
- Cantare
- Pat Cummings
- Gavin Curtis
- Dominique Dawes
- Farafina Kan
- Roberta Flack
- Carla Golembe
- Imani Gonzales
- Alicia Hall
- John Harrington
- Leonard Jenkins
- Camille Lewis
- Daniel Minter
- Shizumi
- Step Afrika
- Elizabeth Swados
- Turtle Island's Daughters
The Kennedy Center's Multicultural Children's Book Festival is made possible by The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
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