Book Notes

By The Daily Progress Staff

Published: August 11, 2008

Children’s festival
returns in September
WVPT Kids’ Book Festival will be
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 27 in McIntire Park.
Nearly 4,000 people are expected to attend the festivities, which will include entertainment, costumed characters and more than 30 literacy-based activities.
Everything is free. There will be free activities and entertainment, free food and a free book for every child 10 and younger.
For more details, call (540) 437-2466.

Ruth Graham earns Gold Medallion honor
Ruth Graham, Billy Graham’s daughter, has won the ECPA Gold Medallion of Excellence Christian Book Award at the International Christian Retailing Show in Orlando, Fla.
‘Step into the Bible” is a full-color family devotion with more than 300 photographs that retells 100 Bible stories that have been used by four generations of the Graham family.
Graham also is the author of “In Every Pew Sits a Broken Heart,” “A Legacy of Love” and “A Legacy of Faith. She co-authored “I’m Pregnant ... Now What?” with Dr. Sara Dormon.
Graham has three children and four grandchildren and lives in the Shenandoah Valley.

Waynesboro officer
visits Barnes and Noble
Virginia author Mark Kearney will be at Barnes and Noble at 1 p.m. Saturday to sign copies of his debut novel, “Twisted Obsession.”
Kearney has been a police officer for nine years and is on of the co-founders and president of the the Book’Em Foundation. He also has founded the program “Be a Reader, Cops in Schools Reading Program.” The Waynesboro officer has a book distribution program in the local schools and has handed out more than 8,000 free books to students and adults.
Also at Barnes and Noble this week:
l Masterpiece Theater Book Group meets 6 p.m. Wednesday to discuss “Wuthering Heights.”
l Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Group meets 7 p.m. Thursday to discuss “Oryx and Crake” by Margaret Atwood.
For more information, call 984-6598.

From staff reports