The Tucson Festival of Books is a community-wide celebration of literature held from March 8-

9, 2024. Offered free-of-charge, the festival exists to improve literacy rates among children and

adults. It’s the 3rd largest book festival in the U.S. with 2023 attendance at 125,000. Activities

take place on the University of Arizona mall. Author Diane Phelps Budden earned a place in the

Indie Children’s Author tent from 1:30 to 4:30 pm on March 8. Come on by to celebrate the

discovery of planet Pluto with Needle in a Haystack: How Clyde W. Tombaugh Found an

Awesome New World.