{"id":206574,"date":"2026-05-31T00:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206574\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T00:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:59:08","slug":"carnegie-library-of-pittsburghs-annual-festival-celebrates-all-things-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206574\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh\u2019s annual festival celebrates all things books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A free event returned to Pittsburgh on Saturday, celebrating all things books!<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh hosted the Pgh Book Fest at its Oakland branch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Now in its fifth year, the festival featured interactive storytimes, activities and performances from authors and illustrators for a family-friendly literary experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O\u2019Connor and First Lady Katie O\u2019Connor offered remarks, emphasizing the importance of reading access and community-based literacy initiatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The O\u2019Connors also introduced author Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, who presented an interactive storytime based on her book \u201cWe Go Slow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A free event returned to Pittsburgh on Saturday, celebrating all things books! The Carnegie Library of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8216,13266,52366,869,49759,90828,8040,34624,139,7814,859,90827,73,75,74,7817,420,860],"class_list":["post-206574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-book","tag-carnegie","tag-carnegie_library_of_pittsburgh","tag-channel_11","tag-george_anne_roman","tag-hillman_library","tag-library","tag-maine","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-ott_news","tag-pgh_book_fest","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-university_of_pittsburgh","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}