The Telegraph Bath Children’s Literature Festival 2015 is sadly over for another year. Have a look at all the Festival photos here Huge thanks to brilliant Artistic Directors John and Gill McLay. We’ve loved every minute of it and hope you have too. Date for your diaries Friday 30th September – Sunday 9th October 2016! Don’t forget to tell […]
Read moreIt’s another great night at the The Telegraph Bath Children’s Literary Festival thanks to the appearance of Andy Mulligan (author of Ribblestrop, Trash, and The Boy with Two Heads, amongst others) and John Boyne (whose novels for children include The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Noah Barleywater Runs Away and Stay Where You Are and […]
Read moreNeed to know what to do in the event of a zombie apocalypse? Charlie Higson will tell you. Of course, as zombies don’t exist, it’s unlikely that there’ll ever be a zombie apocalypse. Then again, he has written an incredible series that makes it all seem so possible. So, he suggests: “Don’t split up. Don’t […]
Read moreThe Forum is packed to capacity with hundreds of children and their parents eagerly awaiting Cressida Cowell, who has taught the world how to train dragons, introduced us to a whole new language, Dragonese, and turned Hiccup Horrendous the Third into an unlikely hero. Yet, although we are all delighted to be here, there’s a […]
Read moreIn our latest review from the ongoing Telegraph Children’s Bath Literature Festival, Ian Waller and his two of his children, Eve and Dad, enjoyed a morning with… Cressida Cowell at the Forum in Bath. The queue around the block outside the Forum in Bath of children and parents waiting to listen to Cressida Cowell said […]
Read moreIf you’re not sure what to read next it’s always good to go on someone else’s recommendation, and who better to suggest a great read than Gill McLay, artistic co-director of The Telegraph Bath Children’s Festival. Bath Picks, the initiative that she and John McLay, co-director (and husband) launched this year celebrates authors whose voices […]
Read moreBeing a teenager in 2015 is not exactly a super sleek, bump free ride, as we all know. So, when I saw that there is a talk which claims that it will help you to “navigate your way through” the testing times, how could I miss it? On hand to deliver their pearls of wisdom […]
Read moreTo be perfectly honest with you all, I feel like a bit of a fraud. I am a blogging virgin. I have never done this before (although I have attended the fabulous Lit Fest in previous years). Yeah, I’m crazy nervous and no, that’s not just because England is playing Wales tonight in the RWC. […]
Read moreAnimal Stories with Piers Torday and Erin Hunter (Victoria Holmes) I first read Erin Hunter’s Into the Wild when I was about 9 years old. At that point, I had turned away from reading altogether, not being interested in anything that wasn’t my beloved Magic Tree House books (a very popular American series at the […]
Read moreBath Kids Lit Fest: Judith Kerr and the Opening Night Party Woohoo, this year’s Bath Kids Lit Festival has arrived! Things kicked off on Friday night with Judith Kerr in conversation with Julia Eccleshare and, wow, what a way to celebrate the beginning of this year’s festival. Judith Kerr is responsible for millions and millions […]
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