2026 Nikkei Children's Book Festival
100 N Central Ave
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Celebrate Asian American, Pacific Islander, Native Hawaiian Heritage Month, Children’s Book Week, and Kodomo no hi (Japanese Children’s Day) with our second annual Nikkei Children’s Book Festival. This year’s festival highlights heroes of all ages who have strengthened our community and made it special in big and small ways.
Featured guests include Stan and Julie Sakai (Chibi Usagi), Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Yas Imamura (Love in the Library), Mia Wenjen (Barbed Wire Between Us), Jolene Gutiérrez, Chris Sasaki, and John Tonai (Unbreakable), Korey Watari and Mike Wu (Kimi the Ballerina), and Derek Mio (The Terror actor, and reader of Baseball Saved Us).