Coming up at Manchester Children's Book Festival 2015:
2015
Manchester Children’s Book Festival
TV’s Sam
& Mark 01/07/15
We’re absolutely delighted that TV presenters and now
authors Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes – better known as “Sam & Mark” – will be
joining our programme and launching their first children’s book, The
Adventures of Long Arm, at the 2015 Manchester Children’s Book Festival.
When Ricky Mitre, a young boy who is always in trouble, accidently gets his arm
stuck down the U-bend of the staff toilet and emerges with a super long arm,
his adventures as a brand-new “superkid” are just beginning… Meet the duo and
hear more about the adventures of Ricky and his best friend Sam – and maybe
also a little bit about two other best friends, who’ve had some pretty
impressive adventures.
Wednesday 1st July, 2pm, MMU Geoffrey Manton
Building. £3.50 per ticket. Click here to book,
or call our box office on 0843 208 0500. Special
offers available for schools groups – contact mcbf@mmu.ac.uk or 0161 247 2424 for
details.
Alex Scarrow
at Central Library 02/07/15
In keeping with our Time Travel theme, we’re thrilled to
have Alex Scarrow joining our 2015 Festival line-up. Alex’s TimeRiders series
follows the adventures of Liam, Maddy and Sal, recruited by an agency that
no-one knows exists with only one purpose: to fix broken history – to travel
back in time and change the past. Join us at Manchester Central Library for
this special MCBF event to hear Alex reading from and talking about the series
– and signing books afterwards. There’ll also be an opportunity to browse the
Library’s amazing Archives+ resources before the event begins. Thursday 2nd
July, 6pm, Manchester Central Library. £3.50 per ticket. Click
here to book, or call our box office on 0843 208 0500. Special offers available
for schools groups – contact mcbf@mmu.ac.uk or 0161 247 2424 for
details.
Meet “Queen
of Teen” James Dawson 05/07/15
We can’t wait to meet James Dawson – author of teen
thrillers including his new novel Under My Skin. His non-fiction
includes Being A Boy, which takes a frank and funny approach to puberty,
sex and relationships, and This Book is Gay, an inclusive
and uncensored look at what it’s like to grow up LGBT. He has previously
worked as a teacher, specialising in PHSCE and behaviour, and his work has been
translated into more than ten languages. James is the reigning UK Queen of
Teen and was appointed a Stonewall School Role Model in 2014. Come and
meet him at Waterstones.
Saturday 4th July, 2.30pm, Waterstones Manchester
Deansgate. £3.50 per ticket. Click here to book,
or call our box office on 0843 208 0500.
FREE
Manchester Children’s Poetry Weekend
With support from Arts Council England, we’re thrilled to be
celebrating new poetry for children by letting its stars into Manchester on the
weekend of Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July. We’ll be taking over
city centre venues for two full days of FREE readings and activities –
Manchester Central Library on the Saturday, and Waterstones Manchester
Deansgate on the Sunday. Drop in to see children’s poetry stars performing
their work and join in arts and crafts. There’ll also be open floor slots, so
you can come along and read a poem, too. Guest poets who'll be
taking part include Dominic
"Dommy B" Berry, Mandy
Coe, Chrissie
Gittins and Robert
Paul Weston. We'll also be inviting bookshops, libraries, schools and
reading groups to set up their own children’s poetry events across the city and
beyond – and we’ll be out at Simply
Books in Bramhall and Urmston
Bookshop for special activities on Saturday 4th, too. For the full schedule
of poetry events and to find out how to take part click “What’s
On” or visit our MCBF “Get
Involved” page. Come and join us as we let in the stars of children’s
poetry.
Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July. FREE
– booking not required – just drop in.
MCBF in the
City
Join our
friends at Manchester’s museums, galleries, theatres, libraries
Watch out for some brilliant special MCBF events at our
partner venues across the city during the 2015 Festival. There are Ladybird
Books Football Badge Making and Going to the Match Family Tours at the National
Football Museum, a whole day of Musical Tales at the Royal Northern College of
Music, Family Book Day at Ordsall Hall, the Royal Exchange Theatre’s special
production Flicker and the Flying Books, PuppetCraft presenting Michael Rosen’s
Monkey! at Z-arts, storytime at Waterstones and Tiny Tots & Toddler
Time and an Archive+ drop-in at Manchester Central Library. We’ll see you
there!
For full details, including dates, times, venues and booking
where required, see: http://www.mcbf.org.uk/whats-on/events
Get involved
To browse the full 2015 programme and book your tickets go
to www.mcbf.org.uk and click “What’s On”
or call our box office on 0843 208 0500. 2015 is one of our most interactive
programmes yet, with lots of opportunities
for you to use your imagination and share your creations, whether you're
writing, drawing, reading out loud ... or even dressing up! And you don't have
to come to Manchester to get involved. Why not imagine yourself as a time
traveller and tell us a story about where – and when – you’d like to visit,
whether it’s in the distant past or the far future. Download
an entry form and enter our Compton Valance Time Travel Comic Strip
Competition. And, wherever you are in the world, you can also take part in
our International
Reading & Writing Relay – tell us what you’ve been reading, and send us
your stories, poems, drawings, photos - and keep the relay going.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The Manchester Children's Book Festival Team
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The Manchester Children’s Book
Festival
Manchester Metropolitan
University
Rosamond Street West |
Off Oxford Road | Manchester | M15 6LL
Tel: +44 (0) 161 247 2424
E-mail:
mcbf@mmu.ac.uk
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Working with Readwell to put books onto shelves
at Manchester Children’s Hospital School.
