The Latin American Library at the New Orleans Book Festival Family Day

To young and old alike: 

Be sure to stop by the Latin American Library booth at the New Orleans Book Fest Family Day on March 29, 10-2!

Come explore what ancient Mesoamerican books looked like and how colonial Spanish Americans printed and bound their books. Family Day visitors can learn to solve a Maya almanac and practice counting, writing, and calendar-reckoning, Mesoamerican style. Make your own screenfold codex or use a printing press to make a notebook, and bring home stickers featuring artwork from the Latin American Library's collection.

The image to right is a toponym for the New Orleans Book Festival using Nahuatl pictography: "Where there are many books at the bend of the river."