Authors to visit elementary schools in Mountain Brook

Mountain Brook’s elementary students will once again have the opportunity to meet and interact with several children’s book authors as part of the annual Writers’ Festival Feb. 23-25. Cherokee Bend Elementary is hosting the event this year and chose the authors to invite. Participating authors include Bruce Hale, Candace Fleming and Helen Lester.

All three authors will visit Cherokee Bend, Brookwood Forest and Mountain Brook Elementary during the three days in February, spending an entire day at each school. Each author will visit one school per day. 

Beth Shea, Cherokee Bend elementary media specialist, said the event has been running for at least 23 years, the amount of time she has been at the school.

“Writers’ Festival is an event funded by each of the three schools’ PTOs and has been for many, many years,” Shea said.