Word Play Area

Story Bunting, led by Clapton Creatures! Create a story on a triangle of sugar paper and add it to a string of bunting to create ONE BIG STORY!

Super Signings Tent

Annie Caulfield

Lyn Gardner

Nikalas & Tim

Ros Asquith

19. S.C. Ransom
    

Sally Prue

Cliff McNish

Margaret Bateson-Hill

14. N.M. Browne
    

Workshop Space

Sandra A. Agard - Author and Story Teller

Reading Matters - What Should I Read Next?

Sandra A. Agard - The Book Doctor will help you find your next read in a lively reading workshop. Fun and games for all ages!

Saturday 10th Sept

12.00pm – 12.40pm

Ros Asquith – Author & Illustrator

How to Draw Aliens

Professor R. Asquith, studier of the Alien language and anatomy, will be doing a class on HOW TO DRAW ALIENS! Students should be equipped with pencil and paper. Ros has been a Guardian cartoonist for 20 years and has written and illustrated over 60 books for young people.

Saturday 10th Sept 1.00pm – 1.40pm

Sally Prue - Author

Your First Novel.

Arrive without an idea in your head, and walk away an hour later with your first novel all planned and desperate to be written. Please bring a pencil and some paper.

Saturday 10th Sept 2.00pm – 2.40pm

Margaret Bateson-Hill - Author

Having written award-winning picture books, Margaret Bateson-Hill brings her story-telling skills to 9-12s in her Dragon Racer novels.

Be transported into the world of dragon racing, and explore what it would be like for a dragon to enter your life! Could he stay in your bedroom? How would you introduce him to your parents? By the end of the session the audience will have built up a dragon fact file to

take away.

Saturday 10th Sept

3.00pm – 3.40pm

Monday 12th

St Anne’s Library

Karen McCombie - Author

Karen McCombie, award-winning author, will be talking about her new Barrington Stoke title ‘Candy Girl’ at St Ann’s Library and  at Coombes Croft Library to invited local school classes.

Tuesday 13th

Wood Green Library

Ali Lewis - Author

Ali Lewis, author of ‘Everybody Jam’ will be speaking at Wood Green Library, Marcus Garvey Library, and Hornsey Library to invited school classes.

J. D.  Irwin - Author

J. D Irwin will be talking about her Edwin Spencer series at Wood Green Library to invited school classes.

Wednesday 14th

Wood Green Library

Josh Lacey - Author

Josh Lacey, author of  ‘Island of Thieves’ will be talking about his new book at Wood Green Library to invited school classes.

Stroud Green Library

Margaret Bateson-Hill - Author

Having written award-winning picture books, Margaret Bateson-Hill brings her story-telling skills to 9-12s in her Dragon Racer novels.

Be transported into the world of dragon racing, and explore what it would be like for a dragon to enter your life! Could he stay in your bedroom? How would you introduce him to your parents? By the end of the session the audience will have built up a dragon fact file to take away.

Saturday 10th Sept

3.00pm – 3.40pm

Friday 16th

Alexandra Park Library

Jonny Zucker - Author

Jonny Zucker, author of ‘Monster Swap’ stories, will be talking at Muswell Hill Library, and Alexandra Park Library to invited school classes about his new series.

Marcus Garvey Library

Ed Wicke - Author and

Story Teller

Ed Wicke, author of ‘Wicked

Tales’ and many other books

will be doing an invigorating,

creative & imaginative session

for a large audience of

invited school classes.

Hornsey Library

Tanya Linch - Author & Illustrator

Tanya Linch, local children’s

author/illustrator will be

holding a collage workshop for children over five at Hornsey

Library. Limited spaces.

Booking essential.

020 8489 1428.

Line-up

In The Reading Garden

Lyn Gardner - Author

Respected theatre critic for the Guardian, Lyn Gardner has also turned her hand to writing children’s books! Her Olivia series has been highly acclaimed by the Guardian, Telegraph and the Independent this summer.

Lyn will be reading from her Olivia series in the Reading Garden.

Nestle down among the lavender with a cup of tea and enjoy!

Saturday 10th Sept 1.00pm – 1.40pm

Come and sip a cup of tea

amid the lavender or under a tree

in Marcus Garvey’s new reading garden!

You never know what you might see...

Story Telling

Tent

Sandra Agard

Vanessa Woolf

Wizard Stories

Rose Allwork

Jean-Marc Pierson

Saturday 10th

Official Opening!

The Marcus Garvey Library

Reading Garden

will be opened on the day by an official from the council.

Thursday 15th

Highgate Library

Linda Newbery - Author

Linda will be talking about her award-winning book ‘LOB’ and her new ‘Barney the Boat Dog’ series at Highgate Library to invited school classes.

Thursday 15th

Stroud Green Library

Lou Kuenzler - Author

Lou Kuenzler, author of ‘Jack Splat’, stories about a super fly, will be talking about her books at Stroud Green Library, to invited school classes.

Saturday 17th

11.15am

12.30pm

1.00pm

1.50pm

2.30pm

2.50pm

3.20pm

3.50pm

4.10pm

3.10pm - 3.50pm

2.25pm - 3.05pm

1.40pm - 2.20pm

12.50pm - 1.30pm

12.10pm - 12.40pm

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