Gloucestershire Libraries event
Come along to Quedgeley Library at 4pm on Friday 22nd March and find out all about my Earth Friends books! Head to the libraries website to book here.
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Waterstones Staines
Come along to Waterstones Staines in half term to hear about my latest Animal Stories book, The Firefighter’s Kitten! There will be a kitten craft activity too, and lots of time for asking questions and signing books. More details here. Please contact the shop to reserve a space!
Children’s Book Festival at Surrey Libraries
Join me at Ewell Library this half-term to find out the stories of the real animals behind my Animal Stories books! Tuesday 13th February, 10.30-11.30 and booking is here.
Looking forward to seeing everyone!
Farnham Literary Festival
Join me at Farnham Literary Festival to hear about The Story of Greenriver and The Swan’s Warning, my nature fantasy books set on the Greenriver. Book tickets from the festival website here.
Wokingham Children’s Book Festival
I’m going to be talking about my Animal Stories at the Wokingham Children’s Book festival on Sunday 15th October at 9.45am. Come and find out about the animals behind my stories, and why I love writing about cats and dogs! There will be a signing after the talk too.
Bookings are here https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bookfest/
Looking forward to seeing you!
Bookville Kilkenny
I’m so excited to be visiting Kilkenny for the Bookville Festival! I’ll be talking about my Animal Stories and sharing lots of tales about my own animals and the inspiration behind my books. More details about the festival are here.
World Book Day 2022
I’m back home now after a great week travelling round different schools and events for World Book Day. It’s always so brilliant to see everyone’s excitement about books and reading! I got to visit three brilliant schools:
And about sixteen more online, through a fab Museum Kittens online event with Tameside Libraries. One of the schools got to visit the library afterwards to find my books – I love these photos!
I also did lots of reading on a book barge moored at Camden Market! They had gorgeous book themed food, a butterfly (from The Very Hungry Caterpillar) on stilts, and a chair made out of books!
It was brilliant to see so many children dressed up as characters from my books too!
This is a fantastic Star!
It was so lovely to see Museum Kittens costumes for the first time!
And I got to help make museums with Sarah Lodge’s brilliant artwork:
We also had Jess the Lonely Puppy
Maisie Hitchins, with beautiful red hair!
A fabulous Rose costume, from Rose and the Magician’s Mask
And me! I love this one – I do wear a lot of cardigans and big necklaces…
Hope you all had an amazing World Book Day too!
Live YouTube reading
Join me for a live Animal Stories event on Thursday 26th March at 10am.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3cKLd7RkTdo2Osh1_Y2NmQ?view_as=subscriber
Free Author Events Online
Authors and illustrators are responding to the Coronavirus outbreak by creating loads of resources that children, teachers and families can access from home. These include videos, live broadcasts and printables. Huge thanks to the brilliant Caryl Hart for coordinating this!
So if you are self-isolating and looking for fun things to do, check out what we have for you!
#FreeBookResources
Whatever platform you use, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, search for the hashtag #FreeBookResources and you’ll find loads of amazing things that you and your children can do at home.
Author Live Broadcasts on Instagram
We’re putting together a timetable of LIVE events on Instagram that you can tune into. The beauty of a LIVE event is that you can post comments for the person broadcasting. They can then respond to those comments in real time.
Here’s what we have so far. Keep checking back for updates!
Please note that all times are UK time.
Monday 16 March
2.00 – 2.30
Me!
Holly Webb – Museum Kittens: The Midnight Visitor
I’m starting off with Museum Kittens – find out about the stories behind my new series, and hear the first chapter of The Midnight Visitor!
Here’s a link to my Instagram to watch!
Wednesday 18 March
2.00 – 2.30
Jonathan Emmett – The Clockwork Dragon
The Kingdom of Rodney is being terrorised by Flamethrottle the dragon. Fortunately Max, a young toymaker, and Lizzie, an armourer, are more than a match for this man-eating monster and the two of them come up with a clever plan to drive the dragon away.
Join author Jonathan Emmett for a live reading of The Clockwork Dragon, his picture book illustrated by Elys Dolan.
Find Jonathan on Instagram here
Thursday 19 March
11.00-11.30
Caryl Hart – Meet the Planets
Join Caryl on a Rocket Ship flight through space to meet all the planets in our solar system – and learn some Fun Space Facts Too!
Here’s Caryl’s Instagram to watch
And from 5.00-5.30pm…
Toby Little – Dear World, How Are You?
Thirteen year old Toby has written and received letters from every country in the world – over 1200 letters so far!
Free Resources
There are loads of brilliant free book resources available to print and use at home – here are just a few!
Reading Children’s Festival
Come and join the launch of Reading Children’s Festival at the launch event, Forbury Fiesta, on Saturday 11th May. I’ll be doing two storytime events, at 11am and 11.45am, with a chance to draw your own book covers and make cat bracelets too. My events will be in the bandstand, and there will be lots of other fun things to do all over Reading’s Forbury Gardens.