Cap off your day at the Festival with a bedtime story read by one of our star guests.

778-369-BOOK (2665)

From October 18–25, call our Bedtime Story Hotline at any time of day to hear Festival-exclusive readings of bedtime stories, narrated by acclaimed authors. Place a call from your home or mobile phone, or the dedicated phone booth on Granville Island, located near the Festival Bookstore at 100-1398 Cartwright St.

Inspired by the Filba International Festival in Argentina.

Call 778-369-BOOK (2665) from October 18–25 to hear the full directory or search by name:

Wherever You Go read by Elamin Abdelmahmoud

This is Sadie read by Anita Rau Badami

This Land is a Lullaby read by Sharon Bala

Three poems read by Damian Barr

Lisa’s Airplane Trip read by Emilie Christie Burack

A Lion in the Meadow read by Catherine Chidgey

I Have To Go read by Gregor Craigie

Boy Soup read by Sarah Ellis

The Piper and the Puca read by Kevin Hardcastle

Goodnight Moon read by Nazanine Hozar

Poems from Consolations II read by Clara Hughes

Eleven Stars over Andalusia read by Salma Hussain

Maya read by Canisia Lubrin

The Three Billy Goats Gruff read by Mark Medley

Moonlight Sonata read by Jay Odjick

The Book with No Pictures read by Carol Off

Poems by A. A. Milne read by Sara O’Leary

Guess How Much I Love You read by Rollie Pemberton

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen read by Iain Reid

The Bunney-Fluffs’ Moving Day read by Anakana Schofield

Durin’s Song read by Coltrane Seesequasis

We All Love read by Monique Gray Smith

The Giving Tree read by Kai Cheng Thom

102 read by Jack Wong