If you plan to attend, pre-registration is required.

Free Shuttle Buses are available. Pre-registration is also required.

The 16th annual Telling Tales Festival at Royal Botanical Gardens features a full schedule of over 40 of Canada’s leading children’s authors, illustrators, and storytellers presenting in five vibrant tents.

Look for Team HPL in the Global Garden for storytimes and hands-on activities. Come create your very own comic book character and add your ideas to our collaborative community mural. Check out tellingtales.org for details on this year’s presenters, event schedule, reading lists and more.