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Book of the Week – The Boy With Wings: Clash of the Super Kids
The Boy With Wings: Clash of the Super Kids with Sir Lenny Henry Wings? Check. A super-cool, super-secret past? Check. An impossible mission to save the world from a super evil enemy? Check. When Tunde’s parents take him to a top-secret testing facility called The Complex, he’s nervous about meeting others like him who have […]
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Book of the week – Speak up!
Speak Up! by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola Join the brilliantly passionate Rocket as she organises a peaceful protest to save her local library. On her weekly visit to the local library, to read all about inspirational figures such as Rosa Parks, Rocket discovers that the library will be closing. Can she use what she’s […]
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Book of the Week – Between Night and Day
Between Night and Day by Sean Julian An unlikely friendship that crosses between the daytime and the night-time worlds. Pongo is a safe-in-the-day sort of orangutan, and Bulu is a cosy-at-night sort of bat. When they meet they strike up an unlikely friendship and each gets to see the world from the other’s point of […]
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Book of the Week – Five Survive
Five Survive by Holly Jackson The brand new unmissable crime thriller from Holly Jackson, best-selling, award-winning author of the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy. Eight hours. Six friends. One sniper . . . Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break. It’s a […]
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Book of the week – What Do You See When You Look At A Tree
What Do You See When You Look At A Tree by Emma Carlisle ‘What do you see when you look at a tree? Leaves and twigs and branches? Or do you see a real, living thing, that moves, and breathes and dances? This is an evocative and gentle picture book that encourages us to explore […]
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Find Your Happy at the Happiness Hub 2023!
Come and find your happy place! The Happiness Hub is BACK for 2023! Bigger, better and brighter than ever with LOADS of activities to help us all explore what makes us happy. Bath Children’s Literature Festival has once again teamed up with The Egg Theatre to open Bath’s official Happiness Hub! For two days, on […]
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Book of the Week – Vita and the Gladiator
Vita and the Gladiator by Ally Sherrick Vita longs to write the plays that she steals off to watch – but as the daughter of a high born Roman, her only future is marriage. When her father is murdered, everything changes. She escapes with her life – only to end up a slave, sharing a […]
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Bath Children’s Literature Festival 2023 Character Trail is BACK!
Our favourite characters have gone for a day out in Bath and we want you to find them! To celebrate Bath Children’s Literature Festival 2023, which runs from Friday 29 September to Sunday 8 October, we’re running a treasure trail through the city centre. We’ve teamed up with Bath BID to get as many people […]
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Authors and Illustrators Descend on the Historic City of Bath this Autumn for the Children’s Literature Festival
Books and stories come alive this autumn as Bath Children’s Literature Festival lands on Friday 29 September. The festival brings over 100 of the hottest debut, local and national writers, creators, and illustrators from the world of young people’s books to places and spaces across the city of Bath. Joining us for an autumn programme […]
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Wow! The Opening Weekend of The Bath Festival 2023 Went by in Such a Whirl
What an opening weekend of The Bath Festival 2023! It was so good to see so many hundreds of people, of all ages, packing the venues on Friday night for Party in the City. Bath Abbey was filled with the beautiful sound of the young singers from Schools’ Voices, our festival choir who performed their […]
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