Reading Agency calendar entries: Children http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/audience/children/ en Copyright 2012 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:48:45 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The Donut Diaries of Dermot Milligan: Revenge is Sweet Calling all Children's Reading Groups! Are you fans of the gloriously funny and disgusting Donut Diaries or you new to the series? Or do you just love DONUTS?! Email Harriet at hvenn@randomhouse.co.uk to get a Donut Diaries' activity pack, including how to host your very own Donut Olympics, donut recipes, donut decoration sheets and more. You can even send in your donut designs for your chance to win a set of the books!

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2012/01/the-donut-diaries-of-dermot-mi.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2012/01/the-donut-diaries-of-dermot-mi.html Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:48:45 +0000 Storytime with Jenny Sullivan Award winning Welsh author Jenny Sullivan will be visiting Rhydypennau Library, Cardiff on Friday 2nd March at 2pm to deliver an extra special Storytime to preschool children.

This is a free event and booking is essential. To reserve a place telephone 029 2075 4657 or email rhydypennaulibrary@cardiff.gov.uk

www.cardiff.gov.uk/libraryevents

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2012/01/storytime-with-jenny-sullivan.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2012/01/storytime-with-jenny-sullivan.html Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:18:39 +0000 Mistress of the Storm & Heart of Stone Mistress of the Storm and the sequel Heart of Stone by M L Welsh are stories of adventure, magic and friendship. Set in a blustery coastal town and featuring Verity, a feisty girl heroine and her two friends they are perfect for boys and girls aged 9-11. If you would like to receive copies of Mistress of the Storm for your reading group please contact
lbennett@randomhouse.co.uk

http://veritygallant.co.uk/

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/12/mistress-of-the-storm-heart-of.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/12/mistress-of-the-storm-heart-of.html Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:00:45 +0000 Bournemouth Festival of Words We are looking for authors to complement our Festival's philosophy of ensuring that everyone who loves words can attend the Festival particularly those who face physical or financial barriers to doing so. Authors who have triumphed over adversity would be of particular interest as well as children's authors or those writing humour.

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/12/bournemouth-festival-of-words.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/12/bournemouth-festival-of-words.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:49:49 +0000 The Bliss Bakery trilogy - Book 1 "It was the summer Rosemary Bliss turned ten that she saw her mother fold a lightning bolt into a bowl of batter and learned - beyond the shadow of a doubt - that her parents made magic in the Bliss Bakery." - A delicious new novel for girls, the first in a trilogy.
For reading group proofs, email Rosi on rosi.crawley@harpercollins.co.uk

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/10/the-bliss-bakery-trilogy---boo.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/10/the-bliss-bakery-trilogy---boo.html Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:15:49 +0000 Gwas y Neidr Cardiff Central Library presents
FREE LIVE MUSIC with
Gwas y Neidr

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/10/gwas-y-neidr.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/10/gwas-y-neidr.html Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:05:46 +0000 Coventry Book Festival ( title tbc) Coventry's first book festival will inspire reading and creative writing in the whole community. Events for adults, teenagers and children will be held in schools and community venues throughout the week culminating in large celebration event on Saturday 16th June. The Inspiration Book Awards ceremony will be on June 13th so there is an opportunity for winning authors (winners announced on Feb 15th) attending that to do other events while in Coventry. Please note that the date coincides with Birmingham Young Reader's festival schools week and so there is the opportunity for authors to do both festivals in one trip to the West Midlands! Please contact me as soon as possible with your suggestions to ensure you do not miss this cost effective opportunity

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/10/coventry-book-festival-title-t.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/10/coventry-book-festival-title-t.html Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:24:02 +0000 Charlie Fletcher - Far Rockaway Charlie Fletcher, author of the Stoneheart Trilogy, is available for school and library events to promote his latest book, Far Rockaway, in the West Country.

Cat Manno and her grandfather Victor made a pact that one day, just for the hell of it, they'd take the subway and stay on the A-train until the very end of the line where the last narrow spit of land runs out into the ocean at Far Rockaway. This isn't that day.

On the first page Cat is knocked down by a speeding fire truck whilst crossing 55th St and 3rd Ave in Central Manhattan. She wakes up in a world made from all the books her grandfather used to read to her, peopled by some of the most memorable heroes of classic adventure fiction, brought vividly back to life. Cat must earn their friendship and help as she begins an odyssey and epic quest to find the mythic Castle at the World's End. And the name of that distant, mythic, wave-tumbled fastness? It is, of course, the castle of Far Rockaway ...

If you enjoy reading good books - swashbuckling adventures with sword fights and pirates - then Far Rockaway is the book for you. Join Cat as she embarks on the journey of a lifetime!

To set up an event, please contact Corinne Gotch at corinne.gotch@hachettechildrens.co.uk

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/10/charlie-fletcher---far-rockawa.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/10/charlie-fletcher---far-rockawa.html Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:07:43 +0000 The Phoenix Files: Arrival Luke is having a rough year. When his parents split up, his mum drags him to Phoenix, a brand-new town in the middle of nowhere. Luke is fairly unimpressed, until he uncovers a plot to wipe out the human race! 100 days remain until the end of the world ... not something Luke thought would ever be HIS problem.

Phoenix Files: Arrival is the first in an action packed new series for ages 9+ and perfect for fans of Joe Craig and Charlie Higson's Young Bond series. Scholastic have 20 copies of

The Phoenix Files to give away. Email Catherine Alport (calport@scholastic.co.uk) if you are interested in copies for your reading group.

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/10/the-phoenix-files-arrival.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/10/the-phoenix-files-arrival.html Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:22:59 +0000 Get Active Race down to your library.
Get Active at Cardiff Central Library.

Get into Libraries. Get into Sport. Get into Play. Get inspired!

Join sports stars Jamie Baulch, Nathan Stephens, The Blues and The Devils.

Get free Sports Tasters and follow the Active Fit Squad. Freestyle Football, Karate, Street Dance, Table Tennis and much more.

Wednesday 2nd November
10am to 4pm

For more details contact 029 2038 2116 or email centrallibrary@cardiff.gov.uk

Libraries Fortnight 1-14 November 2011

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/10/get-active.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/10/get-active.html Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:42:57 +0000 Capital Reads: A Festival of Words Capital Reads: A Festival of Words
Saturday 22nd October, 9.45am - 5.00pm
Cardiff Central Library, The Hayes, 029 2038 2116

Drop by and join in our events including:

• Meet the author: award-winning adult, children, and teenage authors throughout the day, including Kristina Taylor, Shelagh Weeks, Maggie Harris, Richard Gwyn, Clare Potter, Damian Harvey, and Lucy Christopher
• Reading Groups - be a fly on the wall!
• Creative writing
• Poetry and prose performances in English, Welsh, Arabic, Urdu and Punjabi
• Activities for children including stories and a make your own comic workshop
• eBook demonstrations

For more information including a detailed timetable of activities, please visit
www.cardiff.gov.uk/libraryevents

In partnership with: Cardiff Libraries, Welsh Government, St. David's Hall, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Short Books, Macmillan Children's Books, Bookgroup.info, and BVSNW (Black Voluntary Sector Network Wales).

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/10/capital-reads-a-festival-of-wo.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/10/capital-reads-a-festival-of-wo.html Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:42:36 +0000 Author Available: Trilby Kent, Smoke Portrait Trilby Kent is available for library events, reading groups sessions and readers' days. Children aged 10+. Trilby would also be happy to talk to classes of students.

To set up an event, please contact eminervini@almabooks.com and for more info about the book, please visit http://www.almabooks.com/stones-for-my-father-p-384-book.html

Stones for My Father deals with the second Boer war, and gives quite an uncompromisingly critical appraisal of the English repression of the Boers at the beginning of the twentieth century. It's the story of a young girl and of his family, and their trials as they are pushed away from their farm and imprisoned in a concentration camp.
The author is a descendant of the Boer war hero Danie Theron.

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/09/author-available-trilby-kent-s.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/09/author-available-trilby-kent-s.html Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:57:57 +0000 Sunny Looking for something to help turn story time into a great art lesson?

We have two copies of Sunny to give away along with these great activity sheets (enough for a class of 30)

A mixture of black and white and colour, these are great for cutting out, sticking and collage work!

Please e-mail ellen.john@hachettechildrens.co.uk with your details!

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/09/looking-for-something-to-help.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/09/looking-for-something-to-help.html Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:47:07 +0000 History Day, Cardiff Central Library Celebrating our local history at Cardiff Central Library.

A programme of free local history talks and information stands.

Enter our history competition - full information can be found on the Library blog - page 35 at http://cardifflibraries.blogspot.com to win a great prize.

For more information, contact: centrallibrary@cardiff.gov.uk or call 029 2038 2116.

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/09/history-day.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/09/history-day.html Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:19:51 +0000 Off the Page Stirling Book Festival Sixth off the page Stirling Book Festival with a range of authors and events.Christopher Brookmyre, Mark Billingham, Nicola Morgan, stuart MacBride and some of the adult authors with Barry Hutchison, Cathy Cassidy and Catherine Forde for the Young People.

]]> http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/08/off-the-page-stirling-book-fes.html http://www.readingagency.org.uk/calendar/2011/08/off-the-page-stirling-book-fes.html Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:15:31 +0000