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  • Could you be our Young Festival Reporter?

    Do you fancy yourself the next TinTin or Sarah Jane Smith? Have you got a way with words, and think you can ask the questions no-one else will dare? The Telegraph Bath Children’s Literature Festival is looking for a Young Festival Reporter to go behind the scenes and give an insider’s view on this year’s […]

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  • Kids Big Bath Read workshops with Hannah Sackett

    Last week, we had our first Kids Big Bath Read workshop with Hannah Sackett at Midsomer Norton Library. We set out on a fearless expedition of Ghastly-Gorm Hall, armed with nothing more than pens and pencils. Just like Emily Cabbage, our intrepid explorers drew all the monsters and creatures they met along the way. See […]

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  • BATH FESTIVALS WINS ARTS AWARD’S GOOD PRACTICE AWARD

    The Learning and Participation team at Bath Festivals is thrilled to announce that they have been awarded a Good Practice Centre Award by Arts Award. Bath Festivals has been recognised as a national centre of good practice for its work with children and young people. As well as producing its three major festivals, Bath International […]

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  • THE 8th TELEGRAPH BATH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE FESTIVAL

    THE 8th TELEGRAPH BATH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE FESTIVAL Friday 26 September – Sunday 5 October 2014 THE LARGEST DEDICATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE FESTIVAL IN THE UK with GUEST ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DAVID ALMOND and OVER 100 EVENTS FEATURING THE BEST CHILDREN’S WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS INCLUDING: Holly Black, Martin Brown, John Burningham, Cathy Cassidy, Lauren Child, Cassandra Clare, Mandy […]

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  • VIDEO: I Have the Right to be a Child

    On Wednesday 2 October, in association with the Action For Children’s Art Inspiration Day, we dedicated an event at the Bath Chidren’s Lierature Festival to a discussion on the rights of a child. Our panel discussed exacting questions put to them by children from local schools and member of the audience. David Almond chaired this event […]

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  • Young Curator Diary: Day 5

    Alice concludes the Young Curator diaries with an entry summarising their final day: Friday 4th October Young Curators Blog by Alice First thing today we made the long uphill walk to the Royal High School. We then walked around the site to their sports hall, assumed our positions around the grounds and guided other schools […]

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  • Young Curator Diary: Day 4

    Our young curator Eve introduced an event on Thursday, here’s her blog about it. Thursday 3 October Young Curators Blog by Eve In the morning, we attended Andy Briggs‘ event, called Tarzan. I thought it was an entertaining, interactive event, that I had the pleasure of introducing. I especially enjoyed the quiz at the end, […]

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  • Video: Tom Fletcher & Dougie Poynter at the Bath Children’s Literature Festival

    Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter joined us during the Festival to discuss and read from their second book, The Dinosaur that Pooped a Planet. We managed to corner catch up with them in the Writers’ Room and they recorded this lovely little message for all their fans in Bath:

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  • Review of I’m A Chicken… Get Me Out Of Here

    We just had to share this rather lovely thank you letter from one of the schools who attended the I’m a Chicken… Get me out of Here school event on Wednesday: Dear Anna Wilson, Thank you for the lovely, funny and entertaining talk at the Guildhall today. We loved the way you moved around the […]

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  • Review of Andrew Motion, Silver

    Our School Programme proved to be a big hit this year. We’ve had some lovely feedback, including this review of Andrew Motion’s event by Joe from Freshford School. Silver, Bath Literature Festival Andrew Motion At the Children’s Bath Literature Festival Andrew Motion told us all about his book (Silver). We found out all about how […]

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