Thanks to CBS Detroit for previewing TODAY’s eighth-annual Bookfest from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Eastern Market. The station interviewed Bookfest Chairman Ryan M. Place and Birdie’s Bookmobile founder Alyce Hartman about their organizations’ efforts to promote children’s literacy and their goal of collecting 2,000 donated kids books at this year’s festival.
“I think that having a love of reading, and being able to be transported into other worlds and to use your imagination and creativity in those ways, that’s what was so important to me,” Hartman said.
The Detroit Festival of Books, Michigan’s largest book festival, takes place Sunday, July 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Detroit’s Eastern Market. The event is free. Photos of the 2024 Bookfest are available for download and use via this link.
About Bookfest
The Detroit Festival of Books, now in its eighth year, has set a goal of collecting 2,000 donated children’s books at the July 20 festival, in conjunction with Detroit-based nonprofit Birdie’s Bookmobile. Attendees with the means to do so are encouraged to bring new and gently used children’s books and drop them in one of four bright-color receptacles stationed around the festival.
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