The award-winning CARDIFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE FESTIVAL will once again bring together an exciting and inspiring programme of events in both English and Welsh, presented by popular children’s authors and illustrators.
The festival is aimed predominantly at children from ages 3-12 but this is a true family-festival in every sense. Since 2013, the festival’s goal has been help create lifelong readers and so, each year they put together a packed programme of authors, illustrators and workshops to entertain and enthuse young people about reading.
Held across the weekend of 29th and 30th March the festival takes place at various prominent locations in Cardiff’s city centre. Events include writing workshops, book readings, craft activities, quizzes and games and the occasional appearance of a character or two!
One of my greatest joys was sitting with my lad, on a horrible rainy day, picking out a book and reading it together. Okay, so these were the days before a billion TV channels, smartphones and a whole range of electronic devices. All of which by the way are terrific. Somehow however, sitting together with a proper book, that you can thumb through, turn the page back and forward, and point at words you need to focus on, seems so much better with a real book. When have you ever heard anyone say ‘don’t put your fingerprints on that book.’
Here’s a few of the brilliant events you can expect at this years festival….
Saturday 29th March
- Oh Maya Gods! with Maz Evans is at the Reardon Smith Theatre at the National Museum Wales at 10am
- There’s No Such Thing as a Silly Question with/gan Mike Rampton at the Bute Park Visitor Centre at 11am
- I Hate Everything with Sophy Henn at the Museum of Cardiff in The Old Library at 11am
- The Houdini Inheritance with Emma Carroll at the Undercroft at Cardiff Castle at noon
- Draw with Rob Biddulph is at the Reardon Smith Theatre at the National Museum Wales at Noon.
- Storytime with Sioned Wyn Roberts is at Bute Park Visitor Centre on Saturday 29th March at 1pm
- Escape Room with Christopher Edge is at the Reardon Smith Theatre at National Museum Wales at 2pm
- Journey to Happy Hills with Sophy Henn at the Undercroft at Cardiff Castle at 2pm
- The Found Things: Books, stories and drawings with Petr Horáček at Museum of Cardiff Old Library at 3pm
- Carys Glyn a Criw’r Coed – Helping the Hedgehogs! at Bute Park Visitor Centre at 3pm
Sunday 30th March
- There’s a Tiger on the Train with Mariesa Dulak at the Clore Discovery Centre at the National Museum Cardiff at 11am
- Frank the Unicorn Alpaca with Gavin Puckett at the Undercroft at Cardiff Castle at 11am
- Adeola Sokunbi: Doodle with Destiny Ink! at Bute Park Visitor Centre at 1pm
- The Villain’s Showdown with Jack Meggitt-Phillips at the Undercroft at Cardiff Castle at 1pm
- Amazing Mum & Billie’s Buzz with Alison Brown at Bute Park Visitor Centre at 2pm
- Storytime and crafts with Gareth Brown at Museum of Cardiff Old Library at 2pm
- There’s a Bear on My Chair with Ross Collins at the Undercroft at Cardiff Castle at 3pm
- Mind and Me with Sunita Chawdhary at Museum of Cardiff Old Library at 4pm
You can get tickets and details on all those events HERE.
The CARDIFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE FESTIVAL runs over the weekend of 29th and 30th March. You can information on the event, how your school can take part, and all the dates we mentioned – HERE.
