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Image featuring black text superimposed over a series of illustrations. Telling Tales Festival. Oct 3 & 4. Illustrations throughout the image, of families and kids enjoying reading outdoors, plus images from stories, like a dragon.

Burlington, ON

Telling Tales Festival 2026

Two days only – Sat, Oct. 3 & Sun, Oct. 4, 2026: Telling Tales presents the 18th anniversary of their Telling Tales Festival, with five tents & 70+ author, illustrator & storytelling presentations. This annual outdoor literary festival features Canada’s leading children’s authors, illustrators & storytellers – plus book signings, activities, performers, musicians, local artisans & vendors, & more! Presented at Royal Botanical Gardens Hendrie Park.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and illustration. The top half of a black orb shape, sitting among several small green and blue overlapping partial orb shapes. Along the top of the black orb are houses and apartment buildings - and it has the words Telling Tales Festival Oct 4 & 5 on the front of it. Various plants, animals and insects frolic among the orbs, and a long vine extends from the mid-left, with a woman and man sitting on it. Dialogue bubbles, from the woman at the top left: Friends! From an insect at the top right: Families! From a mouse at the bottom right: Stories!

Burlington, ON

Telling Tales Festival 2025

PAST EVENT: Two days only – Sat, Oct. 4 & Sun, Oct. 5, 2025: Telling Tales presents the 17th anniversary Telling Tales Festival at the Royal Botanical Gardens’ Hendrie Park. This annual outdoor literary festival features Canada’s leading children’s authors, illustrators & storytellers – plus book signings, activities, performers, local artisans & vendors, & more! All ages.