Join us for Cincinnati’s 5th annual Books by the Banks free book festival. It takes place Saturday, October 22, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the Duke Energy Convention Center. Children and their families can enjoy storybook characters, crafts, and other fun activities in the K12 Kids’ Corner. During this daylong event more than 100 nationally known and local authors will be available to sign books, and will be engaging in book talks and panel discussions featuring popular topics (such as cooking, fiction, and teen literature and more).
These authors are just a few of the authors who will be participating in the fest. Check CCPL’s catalog for their books:
Novelist Barbara Kingsolver will be presented this year with the newly renamed Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award by the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Harry Houdini was born Ehrich Weiss in Appleton, Wisconsin, not long after his parents, Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss and Cecelia Steiner, emigrated from Budapest. Since the opportunities for work for a Jewish scholar were few in Wisconsin, young Ehrich had to work to earn money for the family at an early age. At the age of twelve, Ehrich ran away from home, and eventually reached New York, where the family later moved. After Rabbi Weiss died in 1892, Ehrich worked at a variety of odd jobs, but he was fascinated with magic and feats of dexterity, or manual skills. He changed his name to Harry Houdini, after the French magician Robert Houdin, and learned magic tricks in sideshows and circuses, and from books.
