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A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals by Christopher Corr ill. Claire Grace

January 27, 2021 By achuka Leave a Comment

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Books like this are indispensable in primary school libraries…

Countless different festivals are celebrated all over the world throughout the year. Some are national holidays, celebrated for religious and cultural reasons or to mark an important date in history, while others are just for fun. Dance your way through the streets of Brazil at Carnival, get caught up in a messy tomato fight in Spain at La Tomatina or add a splash of colour to your day at the Holi festival of colours.

With fact filled text accompanied by beautifully bright illustrations from the wonderfully talented Chris Corr, prepare yourself for a journey as we travel around the world celebrating and uncovering a visual feast of culture.

Filed Under: Illustrated, NonFiction Tagged With: carnival, celebrations, festivals, holidays, world

Bologna Children’s Book Fair, 4 – 7 April 2016

April 2, 2016 By achuka Leave a Comment

The Bologna Children’s Book Fair is the venue and the event in the calendar for all those working in children’s content today, and ACHUKA wishes all those attending next week a successful and enjoyable trip.

Chris Riddell has already sharpened his sketching pencils:

Ready for Bologna…

A photo posted by Chris Riddell (@chris_riddell) on Apr 1, 2016 at 11:05am PDT


http://www.bookfair.bolognafiere.it/en/the-fair/bologna-childrens-book-fair-4-7-april-2016/5656.html

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: Bologna, fairs, festivals

Children’s Events – Oxford Literary Festival

February 3, 2016 By achuka Leave a Comment

The FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival has confirmed the line-up in this year’s Children’s and Young People’s Programme. More than 55 events have been announced , including a series of free events on both weekends.

There is a link to the full calendar of events at the bottom of the following page:

http://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/about/festival/children-young-persons-events

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: festivals

Festival Fees – Should Authors Be Paid?

September 19, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

Freya North responds to a previous Bookseller opinion piece:

John McLay, founder of the Bath Festival of Children’s Literature, wrote in The Bookseller that when authors attend a festival, they enter into an unspoken agreement with the festival organisers not to expect a fee. I don’t agree.

McLay, who founded the Bath Children’s Festival, said this at the end of July:

The punters often pay to attend, but authors rarely get a cut of the box office. Should they? Where does all that money go? Is someone getting rich at authors’ expense?
Well, it’s not me. I founded the Telegraph Bath Festival of Children’s Literature in 2007 with my wife, using all of our own money. We staged nearly 150 public and school events over 10 days and attracted more than 10,000 paying visitors. And we lost a hefty five-figure sum. Ouch. By the time we handed over the festival to Bath Festivals to run three years later, we were in better financial shape—but still nursed a loss from that disastrous first year.
When authors attend a festival, I think they enter into an unspoken agreement with the festival organisers. We, the festival organisers, go to great expense and effort to stage a festival which will provide you with a platform on which to meet your public and sell your books. We take the box office receipts to help pay for our own expertise, venue hire, staging, lighting, sound, brochure, ticket services, refreshments, staffing, security, insurance, publicity and marketing. We spend a year planning it, worrying about every unsold seat and missing PowerPoint presentation, and live it for duration of the event itself.

In a nutshell McLay was putting forward the time-for-exposure rationale. He finished off: “These author/reader experiences plant seeds in the minds of the book buyers of tomorrow, and that is worth a lot in my opinion. We’re all part of the festival deal. It’s great that festivals exist, but they need everyone to only take the piece of the financial pie that rewards their contribution.”

North takes exception to this. In her response she writes:

For an author, festival events require a great deal of preparation, thought, generosity and often nerves. The festival fee we pay all our authors is not big bucks, but it is there as a token of our appreciation and respect. They are all hardworking, entertaining and inspiring professionals who simply ought to be remunerated for the service they provide. As Maureen says: “You don’t ask your local butcher for a free steak. Authors are giving their time and energy and yes they do benefit but why shouldn’t they? They deserve to feel valued.”

For more information about the Hertford Children’s Festival visit the excellent website:
HertfordFestival

via A fair shout for fees | The Bookseller.

The Hertford Children’s Book Festival website was designed by Shy Studios:

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Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: authors, Bath, exposure, fess, festivals, Hertford

New Director Of Young People’s Programme at Oxford Literary Festival

February 3, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

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Andrea Reece has taken over from Nicolette Jones as Director of the young people’s programme at the Oxford Literary Festival, it has been announced.

Reece worked closely with Jones on last year’s programme and Jones has already been responsible for a significant part of this year’s programming, and will remain as 2014 Consultant Director.

The announcement was prompted in part by a change in festival sponsor. Until now, Oxford’s Literary Festival has been very prominently the Sunday Times Festival (the paper for which Nicolette Jones works as children’s books editor). The festivals new sponsor is to be FT Weekend.

Jones says, “I am very grateful to the authors and illustrators who agree to come to Oxford and have made the Festival so exciting, and to their publishers. I have chosen to leave with the sponsor with whom I am associated, and am delighted to be able to hand over to Andrea Reece, who is fantastically organised and efficient and knowledgeable, and very well respected among publishers and authors. The programme is in very safe hands.”

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: Andrea Reece, festivals, Financial Times, Nicolette Jones, sponsor, Sunday Times

Imagine Children’s Festival, South Bank

January 28, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

The link below takes you to a really well-designed visual event timetable for this week-long festival on the South Bank. Highlights include appearances by children’s laureate, Malorie Blackman; Horrid Henry author, Francesca Simon; Oliver & The Seawigs collaborators, Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre; Petr Horacek, one of ACHUKA’s favourite illustrators; the always-entertaining John Hegley; Jacqueline Wilson; Robert Muchamore; Philip Ardagh; Holly Smale; mother and daughter Shirley Hughes and Clara Vulliamy… and loads, loads more

All culminating in the announcement of the Red House Children’s Book Award winner on Saturday 22nd February.

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/festivals-series/imagine-childrens-festival-1/productions

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: events, festivals, half-term, Imagine, South Bank

Festival of Children’s Literature | Federation of Children’s Book Groups

June 14, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

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On November 9th 2013 the Federation of Children’s Book Groups will be holding a one day Festival of Children’s Literature in Birmingham by way of celebrating the FCBG’s 45th anniversary and their receipt of the Eleanor Farjeon Award last year.

Inspired by the venue in which the Festival is taking place, the Birmingham Conservatoire, the theme for the day is stories across the arts, exploring how children’s literature has fed into and off music, theatre, film and puppetry.

James Mayhew, perhaps best known for his Katie and Ella Bella Ballerina books which explore fine art and ballet, will be running a workshop aimed at children 10-14 years old, about illustrating to live music (performed by musicians from the Conservatoire), using Benjamin Britten’s music for T. H. White’s King Arthur book, The Sword in the Stone.

David Almond, winner of the international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Carnegie Medal, and two Whitbread Awards, will be celebrating 15 years of Skellig, including exploring its adaptation for opera, theatre and film.

Clara Vulliamy, who has over 30 books to her name including the much loved Bear with the Sticky Paws and Lucky Wish Mouse, will be hosting an exciting mini puppet toy theatre workshop based on Bubble and Squeak, a book specially written for her to illustrate, by James Mayhew.

Michael Morpurgo, Children’s Laureate 2003-2005 and Emma Chichester Clark, illustrator of more than 80 books, including Blue Kangaroo and Melrose and Croc, will draw the day to a close with an engaging insight into their new collaboration, a retelling of Pinocchio.

Tickets will be on sale from September 2nd (you will be able to buy them online via the Festival’s webpage, or in person in central Birmingham). We are working to keep ticket prices as low as possible and as soon as we receive confirmation about the outcome of funding bids we’ve made (at the end of July), we’ll be able to confirm prices.

If you wish to preregister your interest in the Festival and receive a reminder email when ticket prices are confirmed, and when tickets go on sale, please email festival@fcbg.org.uk. Alternatively you can phone 07814 741043 for further information.

via Festival of Children’s Literature | Federation of Children’s Book Groups.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: Almond, conferences, e vents, FCBG, festivals, Mayhew, Morpurgo

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