We've still got spots open for exhibitors at our 2025 Telling Tales Festival! 🗓️ Oct 4 & 5 📍 Royal Botanical Gardens, Hendrie Park Click the link in our bio to see our exhibitor package.

Have you met My Friend Christopher? He can be your friend too when you visit the Main Stage! 🗓️ October 4th at 11:15 am - 12 pm 📍 Main Stage! Free entry with registration, link in the bio.

Love your belly! Thoa Lam author of "Everybelly" will be joining us for an EarlyON presentation of her newest book. 📅 July 23rd, 2025 11:00 am - 11:45 am 📍 Winona EarlyON Centre, 255 Winona Rd Stoney Creek, ON Sign into keyon.ca to register.

Preteens are invited to all 10 of our readings and activities for ages 9-12! Every 45-minute presentation includes themed activities to activate creativity, improve reading and writing skills and connect with the author. Register using the link in our bio. 1/3

Preteens are invited to all 10 of our readings and activities for ages 9-12! Every 45-minute presentation includes themed activities to activate creativity, improve reading and writing skills and connect with the author. Register using the link in our bio. 2/3

Preteens are invited to all 10 of our readings and activities for ages 9-12! Every 45-minute presentation includes themed activities to activate creativity, improve reading and writing skills and connect with the author. Register using the link in our bio. 3/3

Join Imagine In The Park and discover hands-on, guided workshops by local, professional artists in their chosen art form of study! Visit their workshops available ALL DAY at the 2025 Telling Tales Festival. Register using the link in our bio

Love is in the air... Young adults are welcome to join this unique panel of YA romance writers! Send this to a teen romance reader and join us Saturday, October 4, at 11 AM for this behind-the-scenes panel on writing romance for teens. Link in the bio to register.

Join Adam Pottle on the Main Stage! Before bringing the story "Butterfly on the Wind" to life in American Sign Language, Pottle will guide the audience through a brief and engaging introduction to Deaf culture and the rich complexity of Sign Language. Video From: mackidsbooks

We've officially opened volunteer positions for the 2025 Telling Tales Festival! Volunteer with your family and friends for Canada's LARGEST children's book festival. Link in the bio.

Cluck your way over to the Main Stage at the 2025 Telling Tales Festival! “Adventure of the Little Rooster” is a 45-minute interactive and theatrical storytelling adaptation of a Hungarian folk tale. Register using the link in the bio.

Signed books have a special place in every book lover's heart. Get up to 58 autographs at the 2025 Telling Tales Festival! Register using the link in our bio.

Author Anitha Rao-Robinson will be presenting her newest release, "Sari Sister's" at Today's Family Centre in our second-last EarlyON presentation of the season! How to register: sign into keyon.ca and check out the calendar.

Join Sarah Raughley in the Young Adult Tent for an engaging and fantastical 60-minute author talk featuring her latest novel, "The Queen’s Spade". Sarah’s new book explores how our culture and histories influence the stories we tell and don’t tell. #YoungAdultFiction

Listen & Learn about the Cello on the Main Stage At Telling Tales Festival. Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra musician Laura Jones shares her love for the cello with an engaging presentation about the instrument. Join us on the Main Stage to cellobrate music and creativity!

Our first Telling Tales Festival contest is here! Contest entrants will be contacted by [email protected] to verify their entry. You will not receive a DM from any account. Contest available to Ontario Residents only.

Our Co-Host, HPL, will be offering interactive STEAM fun for kids ages 0-8! Explore the world of science, technology, engineering, art and math through button making, bubbles and more. Available ALL DAY at the Telling Tales Festival, Register using the link in the bio.

We'll be at Art Crawl accepting book donations for our 2025 Festival Book Swap. Books can be new or gently used. Don't leave without picking up a copy of our Festival Program 📍 August 8, 2025, 4 pm - 7 pm 🗓️ James St. North, Hamilton, ON in front of Hamilton Artists Inc.

Teens are invited to meet authors Jen Ferguson and Cheryl Isaacs for an intimate conversation celebrating powerful storytelling in young adult literature. Come explore complex characters and timely themes in this panel at the Young Adult Tent. Register using the link in our bio.

We’ve expanded our youth-focused ASL programming with a dual interpreter model! A hearing interpreter signs from the audience while a Deaf performer adapts the ASL live on stage for young audience members. In partnership with Silent Voice Canada and Undivided Productions. #ASLForKids