GRAY — The Maine Wildlife Park will host a new event this year, Maine Authors Day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3.

Parents and children can meet and talk with more than a dozen Maine authors who write about Maine’s woods, waters and wildlife for adults and children alike. Other art, prints, maps and notecards created by the authors will be available as well as the books.

Adult writers will include John Ford, “Suddenly the Cider Didn’t Taste So Good”; Steven Pinkham, “Old Tales of the Maine Woods”; John McDonald, “A Moose and a Lobster Walked into a Bar”; R.G. Bernier, “The Deer Tracker”; Tim Caverly, “New England’s Wild and Scenic River – the Allagash”; and Susan Poulin, “Finding Your Inner Moose.”

Children’s writers include Tom Merriam, “A Bear’s Guide to Dining Out”; Jane Petrlik Smolik, “The Great State of Maine Activity Book”; Liza Gardner Walsh, Fairy House Hand Book”; Susan Beckhorn, “Moose Power”; Katie Clark, “Grandma Drove the Garbage Truck”; Shawn Brissette, “Maine Wildlife Park Mammals Activity and Coloring Book”; Fran Hodgkin, “Andre, the Famous Harbor Seal”; and Brenda McGuinness, author and illustrator of story boards of animal adventures and note cards.

One part of Maine Authors Day, especially for children, will focus on the fairy houses. Children will be able to meet and have their pictures taken with fairies in front of a life-sized fairy house; then “make and take” home a fairy house.

For more information,  call the Maine Wildlife Park at 657-4977 or visit www.mainewildlifepark.com, www.mefishwildlife.com or on Facebook.