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“Danger Really Is Everywhere!”
I went to see ‘Danger Really Is Everywhere’ by David O’Doherty and Chris Judge. I’d already read their first book ‘Danger Is Everywhere’ and I got the latest book on the day. The books are funny because they tell you silly stuff about how to avoid danger that means you can’t actually do anything. I […]
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“If you have a dream to do something, you should try your hardest and imagine that you can do it. Even if you are scared.”
I don’t know what I thought an Astronaut would look like, but Commander Chris Hadfield just looked like a normal man, maybe even like a teacher. We listened to him talk about his new book ‘The Darkest Dark.’ It’s the real life story of how, when Chris was a young boy, he was afraid of […]
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Dare To Be Creative – Paper Nations event arms audience with tips to keep creative writing alive in schools
By Katy Hancock, School Governor, Parent & Writer This week I attended a Paper Nation event at the Bath Children’s Literature Festival; entitled “How can we keep creative writing alive in our schools?” The evening gathered educators, writers, parents and teachers together to hear a panel of fascinating speakers all concerned about the way in […]
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First News loved David Walliams & Liz Pichon – discover what they are looking forward to this weekend at #BathKidsLitFest
We are so excited to be attending the Bath Children’s Literature Festival, and are particularly looking forward to meeting all of our fantastic readers! We can’t wait to hear Michael Morpurgo talk about his best-selling books this weekend, as we had a great time laughing along with David Walliams and seeing Liz Pichon last week. […]
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“Just work really hard, and have a good team”
When Mummy told me that we were going to meet famous cyclist, Sir Chris Hoy, I was really excited. I like cycling and Chris Hoy is one of the best. He has also written children’s books about a boy called ‘Flying Fergus’ who likes to ride and really wants to have a special bike called […]
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“I Love Liz Pichon as a writer and a person” In this fun conversational blog Newbridge Primary School Book Club tells us their thoughts on #BathKidsLitFest’s Liz Pichon event
Newbridge Primary School Book Club: Iris Langley, Eve Greenhalgh, Molly Cheadle, Cleo Kemp, Izzy Hunter Iris says “ Hi, this is our blog about Liz Pichon’s event and her books about Tom Gates. We have just come back from the talk at the Forum and we are all buzzing with the excitement and inspired by […]
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“Don’t feel as though you have to follow somebody else’s rules” Carly Bennett discusses Marcus Sedgwick’s #BathKidsLitFest event
The Bath Kids Literature Festival is always a highlight in my annual bookish calendar, so when the Bath Festivals team contacted me to ask if I wanted to blog about one of this year’s events I jumped at the chance. As longtime readers of this blog know, I’m a huge Marcus Sedgwick fan so I […]
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‘This event was epic!’ Roald Dahl’s Most Villainous Villains…
This event was epic. Although the author wasn’t there (Roald Dahl is dead, you know) it was really fun and showed that you can do really good events without the author having to be there. Lindsey Russell from Blue Peter chaired this panel-type show. We really like Blue Peter in our house – Lindsey and […]
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Lois Edwards, age 10, tells us her thoughts on David Walliams’ #BathKidsLitFest event
This year is the 10th Bath Children’s Literature Festival, David Walliams is opening the festival this year and the festival have asked me to go along to the show and write a review for them. I’m really excited about it and I wonder if he will tell lots of jokes and if it will be […]
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‘My hero: David Walliams’
Rrrrrrrrrrinnnnnnggg! Saturday morning and my alarm goes off. I don’t usually have to wake up early at the weekend but today is a special day. I’ve got butterflies in my tummy. I feel funny. I am off to meet my hero. Today was the first day of the Bath Children’s Literature Festival and the very […]
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