Category: Reading
Christopher Lloyd Interview
Christopher Lloyd discusses what inspired him to create the What On Earth wallbooks …
Event type: Author Event, Literary Festival, Reading
Inky Sprat Competition
Win a download code for Babette Cole’s ‘The Trouble With Dad’ or ‘The Trouble With Gran’, thanks to Inky Sprat. …
Debi Gliori Interview and Competition
We chat to Debi Gliori, author of ‘No Matter What’ and ‘What’s The Time, Mr Wolf?’ …
Event type: Author Event, Book Shop, Books, Reading, Storytelling
Lucy Coats Interview & Competition
Author Lucy Coats reminisces about the publication of her first book and why she loves author events . …
Event type: Author Event, Book Shop, Books, Reading, Storytelling
Book Events Round-Up (27th & 28th April 2013)
Take a look at our book-related round-up of what’s going on for children this weekend (27th & 28th April 2013) …
Event type: Author Event, Book Shop, Books, Reading, Theatre, Theatre Event
Eva Katzler interview
Eva Katzler, author of ‘Florentine and Pig Have A Very Lovely Picnic’ stops by to share her picnic tips. …
Event type: Author Event, Book Shop, Books, Reading, Storytelling
Guest Post:’Brighton Young City Reads’ by Sarah Hutchings
Sarah Hutchings reveals how Brighton Young City Reads is bringing a city of young book lovers together. …
Event type: Books, Literary Festival, Reading
Nicolette Jones discusses her involvement with The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
Sunday Times Children’s Book Editor, Nicolette Jones talks about the upcoming Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival …
Event type: Author Event, Books, Literary Festival, Reading, Storytelling, Uncategorized
Guest blog: Rhyming Competition for Primary School Children
Author Christina Gabbitas launches her poetry-writing competition, aimed at pupils in Years 5 & 6. …
Event type: Author Event, Books, Reading
‘But we’ve been writing all day at school…’
’500 Words’; Why children need encouraging to write as well as read. …
Event type: Books, Reading, Storytelling
‘Bikes, Books and the Tour de France’
We celebrate the Tour de France coming to England with a look at books about bikes. …
Blue Peter Book Awards 2013
Find out more about the shortlisted books for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2013 …
Event type: Author Event, Books, Reading
‘Do comics have a role in encouraging our children to read more?’
We are pleased to welcome Claire Wooldridge as our guest blogger discussing the role of comics in encouraging children to read. …
Event type: Reading
Cathy Farr Interview
Author and co-founder of the Penarth Book Festival, Cathy Farr discusses her historical fantasy series ‘The Fellhounds of Thesk’. …
Event type: Author Event, Books, Literary Festival, Reading
Penarth Book Festival: Interview with Fay Blakeley (Festival Organiser)
Fay Blakeley, co-founder of Penarth Book Festival on the highs and lows of creating a literary festival. …
Event type: Author Event, Books, Literary Festival, Reading, Storytelling
Jonathan Meres Interview
Enter ‘The World of Norm’ with Red House Children’s Book Award nominee Jonathan Meres. …
Ros Asquith Interview
Catch up with Roald Dahl Funny Prize shortlisted author and Guardian cartoonist Ros Asquith …
Event type: Books, Reading, Storytelling
Elen Caldecott Interview
Elen Caldecott shares with us her reaction to the news of being shortlisted for the 2013 Red House Children’s Book Awards …
Event type: Books, Reading, Storytelling
Tracey Corderoy Interview
Tracey shares her thoughts about her writing, inspirations and favourite books. …
Event type: Book Shop, Books, Library, Literary Festival, Reading, Storytelling
Top Five Halloween Events at Independent Bookshops
Have you carved your pumpkins yet? Halloween is just around the corner now and to save you the trouble, we’ve rounded up our top five Halloween events at independent bookshops. Go on, grab your witches hat and support your local … …
Event type: Book Shop, Books, Reading, Storytelling
Jacqueline Wilson at The Royal Hall in Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Jacqueline Wilson at the Royal Hall I must admit that, before attending Jacqueline Wilson’s recent event at Harrogate’s Royal Hall, I wondered how an author event in such a large venue would work (the Royal Hall can seat over 1000). … …
Event type: Author Event, Books, Reading, Storytelling, Theatre Event
Christina Gabbitas interview
Christina Gabbitas is a self-published author of the Felicity Fly series of children’s books. The books encourage children to face common fears and phobias in a light-hearted way and the second book in the series (Veronica Vac) will be released in November. … …
Event type: Author Event, Book Shop, Books, Reading, Storytelling
Jacqueline Wilson Interview
The ever popular Jacqueline Wilson takes time out of her busy writing and touring to chat to us …
Event type: Books, Literary Festival, Reading, Storytelling, Theatre Event
Interview: Emma Barnes
Emma Barnes talks about her newly published book, ‘Wolfie’, illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark …
Event type: Author Event, Book Shop, Books, Library, Literary Festival, Reading, Storytelling
The Book Events for Children’s Holiday Guide: Week Four
The Book Events for Children’s Holiday Guide Week Four: Sat 11th – Fri 17th August Here at Book Events for Children, we’ve lined up a book-related event for every day of the summer holidays (from Sat 21st July to Fri 31st … …
Event type: Author Event, Book Shop, Library, Literary Festival, Reading, Storytelling, Theatre, Theatre Event
Penny Dale: ‘Dinosaur Zoom!’
Author, illustrator and grandmother Penny Dale discusses the delights of writing for young children …
Event type: Books, Reading, Storytelling
The Book Events for Children’s Holiday Guide: Week Three
The Book Events for Children’s Holiday Guide Week Three: Sat 4th – Fri 10th August Here at Book Events for Children, we’ve lined up a book-related event for every day of the summer holidays (from Sat 21st July to Fri 31st … …
Event type: Author Event, Book Shop, Books, Library, Museum Event, Reading, Theatre
The Book Events for Children’s Holiday Guide: Week Two
The Book Events for Children’s Holiday Guide Week Two: Sat 28th July-Fri 3rd August Here at Book Events for Children, we’ve lined up a book-related event for every day of the summer holidays (from Sat 21st July to Fri 31st August.) … …
Event type: Author Event, Book Shop, Books, Library, Reading, Storytelling, Theatre
The Book Events for Children Holiday Guide: Week One
The Book Events for Children Holiday Guide Week One: (Sat 21st July-Fri 27th July) It’s that time again and the school holidays are nearly upon us. Have you got lots of fun and interesting activities lined up for your children? Or … …
Event type: Book Shop, Books, Literary Festival, Museum Event, Reading, Storytelling
Interview: IWM North
‘Once Upon a Wartime’ is an exhibition at IWM North, which will run until September 2nd. It explores five children’s novels about war, looking at the events and experiences that inspired War Horse, Carrie’s War, The Machine Gunners, The Silver Sword and Little Soldier. Throughout the summer holidays, … …
Event type: Author Event, Books, Museum Event, Reading
Tom Palmer: ‘Football Reading Game’ at Harrogate Children’s Festival
Tom Palmer: Football Reading Game Making the most of a break in this summer’s relentless downpour over the weekend, my three children and I set forth to Harrogate Children’s Festival‘s Spiegeltent to meet children’s author Tom Palmer. Tom, a die-hard … …
Event type: Author Event, Books, Literary Festival, Reading
Interview: Octavia’s Bookshop
Combining her love of books with industry experience, Octavia Karavla discusses the joys of running a small bookshop …
Event type: Author Event, Book Shop, Books, Reading, Storytelling
Interview: Priya Desai
Self-published author and speech therapist, Priya Desai, talks about the rewards of going solo …
Event type: Books, Reading, Storytelling
Interview: Nicola Davies
From ‘The Really Wild Show’ to writing children’s books about nature, some great insights from Nicola Davis …
Event type: Books, Literary Festival, Reading, Storytelling
Interview: Lynne Rickards
Lynne Rickards is a Canadian born children’s writer, now living in Scotland. Her books include Jack’s Bed, I Win! and the forthcoming Clementine’s Smile. You grew up in Canada before moving to Scotland. Do you have any favourite Canadian children’s authors? … …
Event type: Author Event, Books, Literary Festival, Reading
Interview: Clara Vulliamy
Clara Vulliamy is the author of numerous books including the Martha and the Bunny Brothers series and the Muffin books. With her love of art and all things creative, Clara’s website is packed with bright, sunny pictures and crafty ideas. Clara … …
Event type: Books, Reading, Storytelling
Five of the best Diamond Jubilee events….
The sun’s shining (well, hopefully it will be soon), school’s almost out and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee is just around the corner. Here are Book Events for Children’s pick of five of the Jubilee events across the country. Bunting and union jack … …
Event type: Author Event, Books, Reading, Storytelling
Interview: Storytellers, Inc.
Storytellers, Inc. is an independent children’s bookshop based in Lytham St. Anne’s in Lancashire. Run by mother and daughter team, Carolyn and Katie Clapham, it has gone from strength to strength in the eighteen months in which it has been … …
Author Interview: Caroline Green
‘Book Events for Children’ is delighted that author Caroline Green has risen to the challenge of answering our probing questions this week. In her past life Caroline worked as a journalist, before publishing her first novel Dark Ride, which won the Romantic Novelist’s Association‘s … …
The Luton Hoo Walled Garden Children’s Book Festival
Luton Hoo Walled Garden Children’s Book Festival: Sunday 20th May, 10am-5pm. Whilst I don’t usually write about individual book festivals (due to the sheer volume of excellent events out there), this festival grabbed my attention. In these challenging financial times, … …
Event type: Author Event, Books, Literary Festival, Reading, Storytelling
Bookstart 20
As parents, we’re probably familiar with Booktrust, the charity responsible for the Bookstart initiative, giving away free books to pre-schoolers, with the aim of encouraging parents to read with their children. It’s often an exciting day for pre-schoolers when they … …
York Children’s Book Award
As well as being the year of the Olympics and the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, 2012 is the year when residents of York celebrate 800 years of York being a self-governing city. As part of the York 800 celebrations, the York … …
Event type: Books, Library, Reading, Storytelling
London Children’s Book Swap 2012
This Saturday (February 25th) marks the launch of the first London-wide Children’s Book Swap, with events taking place across the capital. The event is supported by the Greater London Authority and more than 15 organisations that work to improve literacy … …
Event type: Books, Library, Reading, Theatre, Uncategorized
Most borrowed books
Given that today is National Libraries Day, what perfect timing that PLR (Public Lending Right) released its figures yesterday, showing the most borrowed titles and authors from UK libraries. Based on figures from July 2010-June 2011, it makes fascinating reading, … …
500 WORDS
Chris Evans launched the second 500 WORDS short story competition on his BBC Radio 2 breakfast show this morning. The competition encourages children (aged 13 and under) to write a short story of no more than 500 words on any … …
Event type: Books, Literary Festival, Reading
Enjoy a festive book-themed visit to London
If you’re planning to take the children to London for a visit in the run up to Christmas, there are plenty of book related events going on in the capital, as well as seeing the Christmas lights and the bun … …
Event type: Author Event, Books, Reading, Storytelling, Theatre
