We couldn’t believe it when we heard that the Linton Infant School has done an entire term around the subject Pigs in Planes! Fate must have brought Paul Cooper to us as his oinkredibly funny new series is about the very same thing.
Think Pigs in Space meets Scooby-Doo with a whole load of Top Gun! Each book contains games, puzzles and collectible joke cards, with extra cards to download online and share. Pigs in Planes is perfect for fans of Astrosaurs and Cows in Action, appealing to boys and girls alike.
Come and meet Paul on Sunday 9th May. He will be doing some interactive reading, a quiz, and telling some toe-curling jokes! Children will get the chance to consider how stories are put together with a special Cliffhanger Challenge, and can also make their own planes out of paper. (We are not planning on providing the pigs though!)
Posted on 4 March '10 by josephine, under Authors. No Comments.
Calling all budding Indiana Jones’s and Lara Crofts!
Simon Chapman - real life explorer and author- is coming to Linton to show you how to survive some of the toughest environments on the planet.
Author of the hugely successful Explorers Wanted series and winner of the 2006 Blue Peter Children’s Books Award for Best Book with Facts, Simon has recently branched into fiction with three titles for Barrington Stoke.
A huge hit at the 2006 Festival, Simon has many more hair-raising stories to relate to us, including his 2008 expedition down the Amazon in the footsteps of the legendary 16th century Spanish explorer Juan Alvarez Maldonado…
Posted on 25 February '10 by admin, under Authors. No Comments.
We are proud to announce that Maggie Bateson and Louise Comfort will be coming to Linton on Saturday May 8th 2010. We tried to book them for the last book festival but they were unable to come! Now, at last, in May 2010 these talented people will talk about how they create their delightful fairy pop-up books in a session that will interest the adults as well as the children.
Then they will run fairy making workshops which will conclude with the children naming their fairy and waving a wand over them to help them to pop-up.
Pop in to the Cathodeon Centre and pop up for for some magic with Maggie and Louise at Linton Infant School on Saturday 8th May.
Posted on 22 February '10 by josephine, under Authors, Illustrators. No Comments.
We are delighted to announce that Rod Halls will be our narrator for the final event of the next Linton Children’s Book Festival, a performance of Prokfiev’s much loved musical tale of “Peter and the Wolf” with the Linton Festival Orchestra.
As the recently retired Headmaster of Linton Heights Junior School, Rod has seen many of the Linton children grow up. He is making a welcome return to our village and is sure to inspire and impress us again with his storytelling abilities, and that once very familiar and sonorous voice!
Posted on 15 February '10 by josephine, under Performances. No Comments.
Any Yu-Gi-Oh fans out there? Flex your fingers and grab this opportunity to learn about this art style that is increasingly popular in the UK. At the Linton Children’s Book Festival on Sunday 9th May Sweatdrop Studios are offering workshops on what makes a comic manga and how to get your characters looking right. By the end you will be roughing out a page of your own manga comic!
Manga artists will also be available all day to create manga style portraits of you, your family and friends! Don’t miss out.
Posted on 11 February '10 by josephine, under Illustrators. No Comments.
For the younger children we are delighted to confirm that Kumiko Mendl will be in Linton to tell the Japanese legend of Tanabata at our Children’s Book Festival. This beautiful tale of friendship is set amongst the stars and retold using traditional Kamishibai (paper theatre) music and puppet fans for children 3-5yrs and their families.
It is the story of Princess Weaving Star and her friend Boy who looks after the herd of cows, belonging to the Emperor of the Night Sky. The Emperor disapproves of his daughter’s friendship, but after many adventures, he relents and lets the friends meet once a year on the Princess’s birthday, the seventh day of the seventh month, where they play by the starry banks of the Milkyway. This day is now called Tanabata.
Come and see the story unfold on Saturday 8th May at the Linton Infants School and join Kumiko making origami creations after the show.
Posted on 9 February '10 by josephine, under Performances. No Comments.
We are thrilled to announce that Narinder Dhami, author of the book “Bend it Like Beckham” is coming to Linton on Sunday 9th May especially for all of you football fans!
Narinder also writes the “Bindi Babes” books which have taken the teenage girl market by storm. To celebrate her being with us we are planning some Indian themed supporting activites – but more on that later. If you want to know more click on Narinder’s webpage and get reading her books!
Posted on 4 February '10 by josephine, under Authors. No Comments.
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Posted on 2 February '10 by admin, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Have received confirmation that The Sir Peter Blake Art Bus will be in Linton from 11.00am Thursday 6th May and will remain parked outside The Darryl Nantais Gallery until the end of Bookfest activities at the Infant School on Saturday 8th May.
What a sight to see in Linton High Street! Make sure you don’t miss it.
Posted on 14 January '10 by josephine, under Illustrators. No Comments.
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For a link to the 2008 Evaluation Report, click here.
Posted on 17 September '09 by admin, under Bookfest 08. No Comments.
