(MENAFNEditorial) Online PR News 17-August-2017 Atlanta, GA From 1 to 3 September 2017 , author of will be joining this year's AJC Decatur Book Festival, a community-based, non-profit event and largest independent festival in the country. Being renowned as one of the five largest festivals in the country, DBF continues to gather world-class authors as well as hundreds of thousands of festival-goers to enjoy book signings, author readings, panel discussions, an interactive children's area, live music, parade, cooking demonstrations, poetry slams, writing workshops, and others. These activities will be happening in and around the historic downtown Decatur square.
"We always knew Atlanta had a thriving writing and book community, but it needed a centerpiece to bring all the parts together," Tom Bell points out as he recalls the history of DBF. It was when Daren Wang hatched a hare-brained idea to establish a festival celebrating the spoken/written word that brought the other dreamers and believers together. Tom Bell founding program director, Linda Harris, Richard Lenz, Alice Murray, Bill Starr and Judy Turner then began brewing the magic.
The DBF got rave reviews shortly after 18 months of hard work and dedication in volunteering full-time, until its commencement over Labor Day weekend back in 2006, which was attended by over 100 authors and 50, 000 people. The success of the event was contributed by the combination of supportive local businesses and restaurants, eager and able volunteers, and the ability to walk easily from venue to venue.
Mark Albini grew up in New Jersey. He lived near the woods and a brook teeming with wildlife of all kinds. Being an animal lover, he spent most of his spare time catching and raising the animals he was permitted to have at home. When he was not, he was observing their behaviors. These animals became his main inspiration when he ventured the literary field. Jimmy the Giraffe is one of his published books that gives an important lesson about life. The story commences when Jimmy walks his way to school when he stops at a farm for a hay with his friend Howie the Horse. Jimmy begins to think he'd rather be a horse so he does not have to have his really long neck. But Bobo the Mouse tells Jimmy about how life on a farm gets difficult as it seems. Albini's piece makes the readers realize how some people could become dissatisfied about themselves and their lives that they would wish to become someone else and or to change something, but it pays to be the best version of one's self as a better life is not always guaranteed on the other side. The book's rhyme arrangement and its creative illustrations make it easier for children to comprehend and learn values at an early stage of life.
BookBlastPro will represent the author at the AJC Decatur Book Festival. The festival-goers and other authors will have the opportunity of getting first-hand information about Albini and his piece, Jimmy the Giraffe. They will also get bookmarks and an opportunity of photo documentation which will be released after the event. The book selling will be announced at the event.
AJC Decatur Book Festival Bookzilla, Mark Albinis book and the rest of the fun activities will make this event a literary powerhouse that will delight the attendees and will make this annual event a huge success, as what Tom Bell expressed: "That's what the festival does best."
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