Bath Children's Literature Festival 2022 Booklet

23 September 2 October 2022

Where books and stories come alive

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Welcome

Principal Partner:

We are back, bigger and better than ever before! We have all your favourite children’s authors and illustrators coming to lots of venues across Bath to bring books and stories alive!

Thank you to all our supporters Official Partner:

There’s something for everyone including story time sessions, celebrating poetry, drawing, and writing and making workshops, as well as fun and interactive book events diving into superheroes, climate change, dinosaurs, detectives, gods and goddesses, mental health, manga, spies and plenty of history and mystery.

Festival Partners:

There is also the return of our popular FREE character trail and FREE activities across the city, including The Happiness Hub at The Egg - find out more on p4.

Supported by:

Official Media Partners:

We hope you are as excited as we are… Turn the page to see our events diary before heading to the website for all the details and to book tickets.

Official Print Partner

See you at the festival!

Fritha Lindqvist, Janet Smyth and the Bath Festivals team Official Book Seller:

Official Ticket Agent:

Schools Transport Partner

Trusts: The Roper Family Charitable Trust Festival Programmers Fritha Lindqvist and Janet Smyth

The Coles-Medlock Foundation

Many thanks to our patrons, members, supporters, volunteers and to the team at Bath Festivals for making this happen. For full acknowledgements please visit bathfestivals.org.uk

Cressida Cowell

Bath Festivals is a registered charity: 801617 Dermot O’Leary

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Liz Pichon

Rob Biddulph

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Patrice Lawrence

Events Diary

Festival Experience

Code Event

Time

Venue

Age

Price*

13.00–14.00

Forum

KS1 + £5 KS2

Friday 23 September

FREE family activities in the city to explore and enjoy in between events.

A1

The Happiness Hub

B1

The Boy Who Got Accidentally Famous with David Baddiel

10.00–10.45

Guildhall

8+

£8.50

B2

The Boys and The Girls Story time With Lauren Ace and Jenny Løvlie

10.00–10.45

Guildhall

3+

£8.50

B3

A Morning with Michael Rosen

10.00–11.00

Forum

All

£9

B4

Make Your Own Gromit with Aardman Animations

10.00–11.00

Forum Ballroom

8+

£15

B5

A Wonderful Wonderbly Party

10.00–10.45

Library

3+

£6

B6

Dare to play the Escape Room? with Christopher Edge

11.00–11.45

BRLSI

9+

£8.50

B7

Painting Workshop with Artist Tom de Freston

11.00–12.30

Holburne Museum

9+

£15

B8

A Better Day With Dr Alex George in conversation with Katie Thistleton

11.00–11.45

The Egg

10+

£8.50

B9

Magic and Mystery with Kiran Millwood Hargrave & Lucy Strange

12.00–12.45

Guildhall

9+

£8.50

B10

I Am Not A Label with Cerrie Burnell

12.00–12.45

Guildhall

6+

£8.50

B11

Make Your Own Gromit with Aardman Animations

12.00–13.00

Forum Ballroom

8+

£15

B12

A Wonderful Wonderbly Party

12.00–12.45

Library

3+

£6

B13

Seeking Adventurers! Journey to the Last River with Teddy Keen

13.00–13.45

BRLSI

7+

£8.50

B14

Set Sail for a Bunny Boat Adventure with Philip Ardagh

14.00–14.45

Guildhall

3+

£8.50

B15

Elle McNicoll: Like a Charm

14.00–14.45

Guildhall

8+

£8.50

B16

Jacqueline Wilson: Project Fairy

14.00–15.00

Forum

8+

£9

B17

Make Your Own Gromit with Aardman Animations

Workshop

14.00–15.00

Forum Ballroom

8+

£15

B18

Wonderbly Story Factory Workshop

Workshop

14.00–15.30

Holburne

8+

£15

B19

Ready to Play Rosy and Fizz? with Storyteller Lucy Walters

14.00–14.45

Library

2+

£6

B20

What Makes You Happy? BIG Draw Off with Steven Lenton and Rikin Parekh

14.00–14.45

The Egg

All

£8.50

B21

Creative Writing Workshop with Christopher Edge

15.00–16.00

BRLSI

9+

£12

B22

Be Climate Clever with Teenage Activists Amy and Ella Meek

16.00–16.45

Guildhall

7+

£8.50

B23

Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston: Julia and the Shark

16.00–16.45

Guildhall

9+

£8.50

B24

Which Way to Anywhere with Cressida Cowell

17.00–18.00

Forum

7+

£9

An Afternoon with Michael Rosen

Schools

Saturday 24 September

Let’s find out what makes you happy and what makes you smile! Come down to The Egg Theatre from 10am - 4pm on Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 September where we have teamed up with our theatre friends to bring you The Happiness Hub! A weekend of free, fun and creative activities that will help your family find its happy place. As well as guaranteed smiles, discover tips and tricks about how to keep your head healthy and on the sunny side!

And don’t miss out on the following: • Pick up our popular FREE Character Trail in partnership with Bath BID, that takes you on a hunt round around the city-centre. A festival badge for all who take part and the chance to win a bundle of festival books too!

• FREE admission to the fantastic Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution’s Beyond Beastly: Creatures Natural and Imagined exhibition which is running until 1 October.

• On Sunday 2 October The American Museum and Gardens at Claverton will be throwing its gates open for FREE entry for all, to enjoy its exhibition Hatching the Past: American Dinosaur Explorers. Activities on the day to include dinosaur storytelling sessions, craft activities, a reading corner and lots of fun for the whole family.

Open to All Ages.

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Events Diary Code Event

Time

Venue

Age

Price*

Code Event

Journey to The Weatherlands with Laura Ellen Anderson

10.00–10.45

C2

Five Minutes' Peace with Liz Fost

10.00–10.45

Guildhall

4+

£8.50

C3

The Beast and Bethany with Jack Meggitt-Phillips

11.00–11.45

BRLSI

7+

£8.50

C4

Zim, Zam, Zoom with James Carter

11.00–11.45

Holburne Museum

3+

£7

C5

The Art of Happiness with Tessa Yates

11.00–11.45

The Egg

6+

C1

Venue

Age

Price*

Guildhall

6+

F1

Fergal Fun with Rob Starling

10.00–10.45

Library

3+

£5

F2

Magicborn with Peter Bunzl

Schools

10.30–11.15

Guildhall

KS2

£4

F3

Incredible Untold Stories That Shaped Britain with The Black Curriculum

Schools

13.15–14.00

Guildhall

KS2

£4

£8.50

G1

Story time with Emma Perry

10.00–10.45

Library

3+

£5

G2

Deadly Detentions and Terrifying Trips with Jennifer Killick

Schools

10.30–11.15

Guildhall

KS2

£4

G3

The Marvellous Doctors for Magical Creatures with Jodie Lancet-Grant

Schools

11.00–11.45

Guildhall

KS1

£4

Schools

£4

£8.50

Thursday 29 September

C6

Dermot O'Leary & Nick East: Toto the Ninja Cat 12.00–12.45

Guildhall

6+

£8.50

C7

The Secret Sunshine Project with Benjamin Dean 12.00–12.45

Guildhall

9+

£8.50

C8

The Stuff that REALLY Matters with Jenny Pearson 13.00–13.45

BRLSI

8+

£8.50

C9

If You Go Down to the Woods Today: Autumn Nature Poetry with Rachel Piercey

13.30–14.15

Holburne Museum

4+

£7

G4

Meet The Worst Class in the World!

With Joanna Nadin and Rikin Parekh

13.15–14.00

Guildhall

KS2

C10

Dr Janina Ramirez: 50 Goddesses, Spirits, Saints and Other Female Figures Who Have Shaped Belief

14.00–14.45

Guildhall

7+

£8.50

G5

Finding the Heart of your Story with Tanya Byrne 14.30–16.30

Guildhall

adults £8.50

G6

19.00–20.00

Guildhall

A Pirate Adventure with Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam! with Steven Lenton and Tracey Corderoy

14.00–14.45

Writing for Young People with Yarrow Townsend, Nizrana Farook, Hana Tooke, chaired by Lucy Cuthew

13+ / £8.50 adults

C12

The Big Beyond with James Carter

15.00–15.45

BRLSI

5+

£8.50

H1

Bloom with Julia Seal

10.00–10.45

Library

3+

£5

C13

Solve Your Own Mystery with Gareth P. Jones

15.00–15.45

The Egg

7+

£8.50

H2

Fairy Tales Gone Bad with Joseph Coelho

10.30–11.15

Guildhall

£4

C14

Gods Vs. Spies with Maz Evans

16.00–16.45

Guildhall

9+

£8.50

KS1, KS2

C15

Patrice Lawrence: The Elemental Detectives

16.00–16.45

Guildhall

9+

£8.50

H3

Story time and Live Drawing with Duncan Beedie

Schools

11.00–11.45

Guildhall

KS1

£4

H4

13.15–14.00

Guildhall

KS2

£4

Library

0+

£5

Masters of Mystery: Robin Stevens and Serena Patel

Schools

10.00–10.45 10.30–11.15

Guildhall

KS1

£4

J1

10.00–10.45

Guildhall

8+

£8.50

11.00–11.45

Guildhall

KS1

£4

Twitch and the Magnificent World of Birds with M. G. Leonard

J2

Elmer Storytime with Mama G

10.00–10.45

Guildhall

3+

£8.50

J3

Draw with Rob! Monsters and Magic with Rob Biddulph

10.00–11.00

Forum

5+

£9

J4

How To Draw Diverse Manga with Saturday AM Comics

10.30–11.30

Forum Ballroom

8+

£12

C11

Guildhall

3+

£8.50

Friday 30 September

Monday 26 September D1

Music with Maya

D2

Kung Fu Bunnies, Funky Gorillas & Fairy Tales with Gareth P. Jones

Schools

D3

Sharing Stories of Black History with Patrice Lawrence

Schools

The Exploding Life of Scarlett Fife with Maz Evans

Schools

D4

13.15–14.00

Guildhall

KS2

£4

Tuesday 27 September

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Time

Wednesday 28 September

Sunday 25 September

E1

Collecting Moments with Maud, The Slow Superhero with Sarah Surgey

E2

History and Mystery with Lindsay Galvin and A.M. Howell

E3

My Must-Have Mum with Maudie Smith

E4

Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good with Louie Stowell

E5

Simon James Green: Gay Club!

Schools

Saturday 1 October

Workshop

10.00–10.45

Library

3+

£5

J5

11.00–11.45

St Swithin’s Church

7+

£8.50

Schools

10.30–11.15

Guildhall

KS2

£4

Everything You Know About Dinosaurs is Wrong! with Dr Nick Crumpton

J6

11.00–11.45

Library

3+

£6

Schools

11.00–11.45

Guildhall

KS1

£4

Small’s Big Dream with Manjeet Mann and Amanda Quartey

J7

The Zebra's Great Escape with Katherine Rundell 11.30–12.15

Cricket Club

3+

£8.50

Schools

13.15–14.00

Guildhall

KS2

£4

J8

Julian Clary and David Roberts: The Bolds Go Green 12.00–12.45

Guildhall

7+

£8.50

J9

12.00–12.45

Guildhall

9+

£8.50

18.30–19.30

Mr B’s

14+

£8.50

Journey to the Dragon Realm with Katie and Kevin Tsang

J10

How To Draw Diverse Manga with Saturday AM Comics

13.00–14.00

Forum Ballroom

8+

£12

J11

Luna Loves Dance with Joseph Coelho and Fiona Lumbers

13.00–13.45

Library

3+

£6

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Saturday 1 October continued

Schools Programme

Code Event

We want as many children as possible to access the wealth of brilliant authors coming to the festival and celebrate reading with us. So, we have programmed events for schools and home-schooled children in our festival venues, outreach events for secondary schools, and we’re bringing back our fabulous digital programme, our Reading is Magic Festival. There’s something for everyone!

Time

Venue

Age

Price*

J12

The Bear, the Piano and Little Bear’s Concert with David Litchfield

13.30–14.15

Cricket Club

3+

£8.50

J13

The Amazing Edie Eckhart with Rosie Jones

14.00–14.45

Guildhall

9+

£8.50

J14

Pages & Co. with Anna James

14.00–14.45

Guildhall

8+

£8.50

J15

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity with Robin Stevens

14.30–15.30

Forum

9+

£9

J16

The Good Thieves with Katherine Rundell

15.00–15.45

St Swithin’s Church

9+

£8.50

J17

Story time and Live Drawing with Duncan Beedie 15.00–15.45

Library

3+

£6

J18

How To Draw Diverse Manga with Saturday AM Comics

15.30–16.30

Forum Ballroom

12+

£12

J19

Joseph Coelho's Perfect Poems with Matt Goodfellow and Alex Wharton

16.00–16.45

Guildhall

8+

£8.50

J20

Perfectly Weird, Perfectly You with Camilla Pang 16.00–16.45

Guildhall

8+

£8.50

J21

You Can Draw Tom Gates with Liz Pichon

Forum

8+

£9

J22

Dogs of the Deadlands with Anthony McGowan 17.00–17.45

St Swithin’s Church

10+

£8.50

J23

Heartstopper: Alice Oseman in conversation with Lauren James

18.00–18.45

Guildhall

12+

£8.50

J24

Talent to Triumph with Amy Williams

18.00–18.45

Guildhall

12+

£8.50

K1

Reimagining the Classics with Emma Carroll

10.00–10.45

Guildhall

7+

£8.50

K2

India, Incredible India with Jasbinder Bilan and Nina Chakrabarti

10.00–10.45

Guildhall

6+

£8.50

K3

What the Ladybird Heard with Lydia Monks

10.30–11.15

Cricket Club

5+

£8.50

K4

The Drama Llama: A Story about Soothing Anxiety with Rachel Morrisroe

11.00–11.45

Holburne Museum

4+

£7

K5

Extinct! with Professor Ben Garrod

12.00–13.15

Guildhall

7+

£8.50

K6

Scene to Screen: Adapting Stories with Alice Oseman and friends in conversation with Lauren James

12.00–12.45

Guildhall

12+

£8.50

K7

The Life of One Tree, Adoette: Story time and Craft with Lydia Monks

13.00–13.45

Holburne Museum

5+

£7

K8

The Perfect Present and the Other Stories with Petr Horáček

13.00–13.45

Cricket Club

3+

£8.50

For Everyone

K9

Tyger with SF Said and Dave McKean

14.00–14.45

Guildhall

9+

£8.50

K10

The Secret School Invasion with Pamela Butchart 14.30–15.15

Guildhall

6+

£8.50

K11

Creative Writing with Jasbinder Bilan

15.00–16.00

Holburne Museum

9+

£12

K12

Create Your Own Comic Guide to Life with Sue Cheung

15.00–15.45

Cricket Club

8+

£8.50

Reading is Magic Festival is returning from 26–30 September 2022!

Our free five-day festival will be beamed straight into schools and homes across the globe and will include amazing authors and illustrators such as Benjamin Zephaniah, Dapo Adeola, Emily Gravett, Joseph Coelho & Sophie Anderson.

K13

Spellbinding Eco Adventures with Emma Carroll and Hannah Gold

16.00–16.45

Guildhall

8+

£8.50

K14

Richard Ayoade and Tor Freeman: The Book That No One Wanted to Read

16.30–17.15

Guildhall

8+

£8.50

Workshop

17.00–18.00

For Primary Schools

For Secondary Schools

We’re kicking off the festival in style with the legend Michael Rosen, and have a week of book filled fun with Maz Evans, Patrice Lawrence, Peter Bunzl, Robin Stevens, Serena Patel and many more.

We have 5 fantastic authors touring local schools and inspiring secondary school pupils on the next stage of their reading journeys:

Sunday 2 October

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Check out

Schools

in the Events Diary

Fri 23 Sept Elle McNicoll

Mon 26 Sept Tue 27 Sept

Benjamin Dean Simon James Green

For more information email education@bathfestivals.org.uk Wed 28 Sept Thu 29 Sept

Angharad Walker Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem

Inspired by Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2019-2022 Cressida Cowell’s key message that ‘reading is magic, and magic is for everyone’, the 2022 festival will continue to explore the themes from her Waterstones Children’s Laureate Charter and connect schools with festivals from around the world.

Find out more and tune in readingismagicfestival.com

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Event locations

Useful information How to book

Workshops

By telephone on 01225 463362 Online at bathfestivals.org.uk

You can drop children who are 8 or older at these events, so only need to buy a ticket for each child attending. We ask parents/carers In Person at Bath Box Office Counter, to drop children off at the venue, sign them 1A Forum Buildings, St James Parade, in, and leave a mobile contact number in case BA1 1UG. Bath Box Office telephone and of emergencies. If adults need to stay with counter is open 10am - 4pm. their child, they can attend for free.

Fees Our Aardman workshops are open to adults *A ll tickets are subject to a 10% service charge as well as children so you can make together and all bookings incur a transaction charge of £1. as a family, please buy a ticket for each person who wants to make a model.

Booking enquiries If you have any enquiries regarding booking please contact Bath Box Office: info@bathboxoffice.org.uk | 01225 463362

Child Protection Policy Children under 12 must be accompanied by a ticket buying adult at all festival events unless otherwise stated. Bath Festivals maintains a Safeguarding Policy but cannot act in loco parentis or take responsibility for wandering children.

Look for

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The Forum, St James Parade, BA1 1UG

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Guildhall, High Street, BA1 5AW

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Bath Central Library, The Podium, BA1 5AN

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The Egg Theatre, 36 Monmouth St, BA1 2AN

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BRLSI, 16-18 Queen Square , BA1 2HN

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Bath Cricket Club, North Parade Road, BA2 4EX

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Holburne Museum, Great Pulteney St, BA2 4DB

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American Museum, Claverton Down, BA2 7BD

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St Swithin’s Church, The Paragon, BA1 5LY

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in the Events Diary

Filming and photography Some events or shows may be filmed or photographed, please let a member of staff know at the event if you do not wish to be filmed or photographed.

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Accessibility

Bath Festivals is keen to promote equality of opportunities for people with disabilities and to take the necessary steps to meet their Cover illustration credits requirements. For more information, please Bloom © Julia Seal | Bolds Go Green © David Roberts visit our accessibility page: | The Elemental Detectives © Paul Kellam | Manga illustrations © Saturday AM 2022 |Rainbow Grey © bathfestivals.org.uk/accessibility.

Laura Ellen Anderson| Shifty McGifty & Slippery Sam © Steven Lenton | Ladybird © Lydia Monks | Maddy If you have any access enquiries please Yip © Sue Cheung | Geoffrey the Giraffe © Tessa Yates | The Bear and the Piano © David Litchfield contact us at access@bathfestivals.org.uk |The Worst Class in the World illustration copyright © Rikin Parekh, 2020 | Doodle and Peanut © Rob Biddulph |The Secret Sunshine Project © Sandyah Prabhat | Tom Gates © Liz Pichon |Gromit © Aardman Studios | Toto the Ninja Cat © Nick East | Luna © Joesph Coelho | The Large Family © 1986-2022 Jill Murphy

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HIGHLIGHTS

A MORNING WITH MICHAEL ROSEN 24 Sep | 10.00–11.00 | Forum

WHICH WAY TO ANYWHERE WITH CRESSIDA COWELL 24 Sep | 17.00–18.00 | Forum

WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY? BIG DRAW OFF WITH STEVEN LENTON AND RIKIN PAREKH

JACQUELINE WILSON: PROJECT FAIRY 24 Sep | 14.00–15.00 | Forum

24 Sep | 14.00–14.45 | The Egg

DR JANINA RAMIREZ: 50 GODDESSES, SPIRITS, SAINTS AND OTHER FEMALE FIGURES WHO HAVE SHAPED BELIEF 25 Sep | 14.00–14.45 | Guildhall

DRAW WITH ROB! MONSTERS AND MAGIC WITH ROB BIDDULPH 1 Oct | 10.00–11.00 | Forum

THE AMAZING EDIE ECKHART WITH ROSIE JONES

THE MINISTRY OF UNLADYLIKE ACTIVITY WITH ROBIN STEVENS

1 Oct | 14.00–14.45 | Guildhall

1 Oct | 14.30–15.30 | Forum

JOSEPH COELHO’S PERFECT POEMS WITH MATT GOODFELLOW AND ALEX WHARTON

YOU CAN DRAW TOM GATES WITH LIZ PICHON

HEARTSTOPPER: ALICE OSEMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH LAUREN JAMES

RICHARD AYOADE AND TOR FREEMAN: THE BOOK THAT NO ONE WANTED TO READ

1 Oct | 18.00–18.45 | Guildhall

2 Oct | 16.30–17.15 | Guildhall

1 Oct | 17.00–18.00 | Forum

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1 Oct | 16.00–16.45 | Guildhall

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