Friday, July 24, 10am-6pm; Saturday, July 25 & Sunday, July 26, 10am-5pm

300 Block of Montgomery Street

Syracuse University Book Store Book Fair – The literary and creative talents of local and regional authors and illustrators will be showcased.  Many will be on hand to discuss, and personally autograph their books.  Books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and those for children will be featured.  (See list of authors below.)

Childrens  Books - Graphic Novels:
Frank Cammuso is the Eisner nominated creator of the comic book series Max Hamm Fairy Tale Detective. He has been a political cartoonist for 20 years and draws editorial cartoons for the Post-Standard newspaper in Syracuse. His work, including fiction and satire, has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Village Voice and on National Public Radio.

Childrens Books – Illustrator:
London Ladd, a lifelong Syracuse resident, is a graduate of Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration.  He studied with renowned illustrators James Ramsone, Bob Dacey, John Thompson, Yvonne Buchanan and Roger DeMuth learning all aspects of illustration, art and design.  London has partnered with Christine King Farris, older sister of Martin Luther King Jr, for a children’s book, March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World, to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.  His work has been displayed at the Everson Museum and the Syracuse Jazz Fest.  London has also worked with various recording artists illustrating CD covers and he has designed a mural for the Cultural Resource Council depicting Reverend Jermain Loguen, an abolitionist, who helped escaped slave to freedom in the Underground Railroad.

Roger Demuth, author and illustrator of Please Don’t Eat Me and Dinner For Eight is an award winning Designer, Illustrator, Photographer and Gardener. His Illustrations have won Certificates of Merit from the Society of Illustrators in New York and Los Angeles. His work has appeared in the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and The New York Times to mention a few.  Roger has been honored to work with the Cartoon Network, Cracker Jack, Masterpieces Puzzles, Smokey the Bear, Xerox, Silver Burnett & Ginn, Consolidated Edison, WGBH Boston, Kodak, Xerox, Big Blue Dot, Disney, C.R. Gibson, American Greetings, Niagara Mohawk & numerous companies throughout the United States and Europe. His first Children’s book Messy Bessie, Where’s My Homework? won the Philadelphia Sketch Club’s Book award, and a Creativity award from Create Magazine. Please Don’t Eat Me recently won the “Wacky award” from Publisher’s Weekly.

Poetry:
Marv Druger published Strange Creatures and Other Poems, a book of poems for children of all ages. He is a Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and taught introduction to Biology for more than 50 years. He served as president of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE), and twice president of the Society for College Science Teachers (SCST). He is the recipient of the Robert Carleton Award from NSTA and the Honorary Emeritus Member Award from ASTE – the highest awards bestowed by these international science education organizations. Currently, Dr. Druger is secretary of the Education Section (Q) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) – the largest multidisciplinary science organization in the world. 

Alice Fulton, author of Nightingales of Troy, Cascade Experiment, Felt and Sensual Math has been honored by the MacArthur Fellowship and awarded the Editor’s Prize in Fiction. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. Her newest book, Nightingales of Troy is set in Troy, New York, and follows a quirky and resilient Irish-American family through the twentieth century. She lives in Ithaca, New York, and teaches at Cornell University.

Aken Wariebi, author of Think as Your Heart Beats is a graduate of Rutgers University and writes when she can. She has been writing for a number of years and this is her first published book of inspirational, motivational, religious and romantic poetry.

Nature and Environment:
Donald Leopold will speak and answer questions about native plants, endangered species, and habitat management. He is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and is the author of Native Plants of the Northeast, and Trees of New York State Native & Naturalized, a comprehensive identification guide to nearly 150 tree species of New York. He is coauthor of The Landowner’s Guide to State-Protected Plants of Forests in New York State and Trees of the Central Hardwood Forests of North America: An Identification and Cultivation Guide.

The University Bookstore offers a variety of services and an extensive selection of books designed to support the diverse interests and vibrant climate of our community.  

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