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Wernersbach and Kim sat down to talk about show highlights, what's new this year, what makes the Texas Book Festival unique, and some of Austin's mustvisit attractions. Next to the Libros en Español Book Sales Tent, festivalgoers will also be able to browse Spanish-language children's books made available by Cuentology, an Austin-based children's bookseller specializing in Spanish-language children's books Food-wise, there seems to be a new restaurant opening every day, so after being inspired by the live cooking demos and cookbook programming at the festival, foodies should venture out and try out Austin's great restaurant scene. [Extracted from the article]

Reports on several book festivals in the U.S. for 2004. South Carolina Book Festival in Columbia; Lee County Reading Festival in Ft. Myers, Florida; Broward County Literary Feast in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Plano Book Festival for Adult Literacy in Texas.

An interview with Lois Kim and Julie Wernersbach, organizers of 2018 Texas Book Festival, is presented. Kim and Wernersbach talk about the trends they notices in the 2018 books, how the political and public climate in 2018 inform the programming, and how the things they were organizing in 2017 like the children's events evolved in 2018.