Chiaki will show you how to use pompom makers to create perfect pompoms!! Then you can make super cute Snow People Pompom ornaments and BIG colorful Pompoms for festive decorations.

Storytime + Book Signing with Award-Winning Author Maria Castellucci Moore.

Meet, watch, and talk to cartoonist, author, and illustrator James Burks, creator of the graphic novel series Agent 9 and Bird & Squirrel. Burks has also worked on animated feature films and television shows for Disney, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network.

Renown Surf artist  Robb Havassy leads young students through basic wave painting techniques on beautifully grained wood cuts sourced from our Garden.

Kellie Menendez, author of Patterns, Patterns Everywhere will help children to create their own patterns in Woset soil (dry clay) by pressing in dried flowers, other natural elements, and by drawing with markers directly on their sculpted piece.

Thinking about starting your own graphic novel? This class will help you get started!

Join us between 6:30 - 8:05 am on Tuesday, December 3rd, BEFORE SCHOOL, for a release party with coffee (for parents) donut holes (for kids and parents) and an opportunity to purchase the new Dog Man book, Big Jim Begins, and get a photo with Dog Man himself! And we'll have the new Keeper of the Lost Cities Unraveled on hand for you, too!

Our FREE INDOOR 8th Bay Area Kids' Book Fair is the Nov. 2-3 weekend.

FREE INDOOR 8th Bay Area Kids' Book Fair returns Nov. 2-3 weekend with famous costume characters, authors, storytime and more.

Join co-authors Liz Kleinrock and Caroline Kusin Pritchard in conversation about their new book What Jewish Looks Like—a children’s book that explores the unlimited and diverse ways to look and be Jewish.

Lowrider Takeover at Children’s Discovery Museum!

Families will enjoy all the Museum has to offer, along with celebrity and author story readings, hands-on activities and art projects, and family friendly entertainment. 

Meet author Karen Chew and listen to her story, Rocky Penguin and the Rubber Ducky, and draw your own penguin!

Join Sendy Santamaria, 2024 Summer Stride author-illustrator, for an outdoor bilingual story hour: 10:30 a.m.–11 a.m. For ages 5 and younger.

Artivist Nikkolas Smith shares his work in art and activism at The Walt Disney Family Museum.

Our next festival will take place in two parts: Family Day at the Berkeley Public Library on Saturday May 4, 2024 (geared towards youngsters through teens/YA) and our full 10th Anniversary festival June 1 & 2, 2024 in Downtown Berkeley.

The San Francisco Public Library Main Children’s Center and the SFPL Racial Equity Committee proudly present this extraordinary event featuring award-winning author Christina Soontornvat.

Join us on Saturday, March 30th at 11 a.m. (PST), as we welcome author Melvina Noel and illustrator Daria Peoples to celebrate the launch of Mama’s Library Summers, a moving picture book tribute to black mothers, libraries, and the power of reading and seeing oneself in books.

Please join us for a special book party and signing with authors Lisa McMann and Matt McMann celebrating their two new middle-grades books at Copperfield’s Books as part of the national tour for FORGOTTEN FIVE #4: Dangerous Allies and MONSTERIOUS #4: The Beast of Skull Rock.

What are you doing for Valentine's Day this year? We hope you'll be bringing your Amulet fans to Copperfield's to meet Kazu Kibuishi as he launches the 9th and final book in the Amulet series, Waverider.

Beloved children’s author-illustrator Mo Willems joins an exciting roster of celebrity comedians for a morning of comedy, books, music, & doodles!

Join us for a family friendly concert in the San Francisco Botanical Garden in the Celebration Garden with MISTER G.

Gracie feels like a minor character in her own life story—until a mysterious journal turns her fictional stories into reality.

Everybody thinks Unice is a rhino. What if I tell you she's actually a unicorn? I bet you'll say, "She looks like a rhino. She is a rhino." But Unice doesn't feel like a rhino, and her insides are all mixed-up. She feels trapped . . . until she meets a tiger with glitzy rainbow stripes.