children s book festival october 2008

Children's Book Festival October 2008

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The Children’s Book Festival 2008 will run in October, with over 1,000 events taking place nationwide to celebrate children’s books and encourage reading amongst young people. In 2006 the festival involved some 55,000 participants, making it by far the largest cultural event of its kind in Ireland.

Now in its 18th year, the Festival has established itself as a major focus for the children’s books community in Ireland, with a particular emphasis on the work of Irish writers and illustrators. This year’s programme will see celebrated established favourites like OisÍn McGann, Dave Donohue, Mary Arrigan, Judi Curtin and Malachy Doyle joined by exciting new Irish names such as Derek Landy, Peader Ó Guilín and Jon Berkeley.

The Festival will also be showcasing the best of international talent from the UK and further afield, such as British screenwriter (Gladiator, Shadowlands) turned young-people’s author William Nicholson, and his compatriots Brian Moses, is sure to create a stir as he takes his special brand of performance poetry on tour around the country!

The Children’s Book Festival is also delighted to be collaborating with The Goethe-Institut Dublin and the Alliance Française to invite two storytellers from Germany and France to present some well– and not so well– known fairy tales in German and French (with a little assistance in English), providing a unique opportunity for children to experience aspects of the common cultural heritage of a European multilingual environment, while also demonstrating that learning a foreign language can be fun as well as useful.

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Libraries, schools, bookshops, community centres and arts centres will be hosting the widest range of book-related activities the festival has ever seen, all designed to spread the message that reading is fun and stimulating, accessible and inclusive. With events ranging from author visits to illustration workshops, puppet theatre, storytelling sessions, competitions and even rap workshops, there’s certainly something for everyone!

The vast majority of events are free, though pre-booking is recommended. Further details on these appearances, as well as other authors and illustrators yet to be confirmed, will be available closer to the time.

Having established a successful partnership in 2006, the Children’s Book Festival will be sponsored by Nestlé Munch Bunch again this year. Vanessa Johnston, Category Marketing Manager (Nestlé Chilled) said, We are thrilled to once again be involved with the Children's Book Festival. It is a tremendous initiative that allows children to celebrate the joy of reading through a range of contemporary fun events.

Artist Mark Oliver has been specially commissioned to create an original artwork for this year’s festival. Picking up on the major themes of the event, the image is a joyful mixture of carnival, imagination and adventure, featuring a young boy sailing a colourful steamboat amongst a sea of quotations from famous children’s books, whilst a girl ‘fishes’ yet more books out of the air!

Information about 2008 festival has not yet been issued.

For further information about the Festival visit; www.childrensbooksireland.ie

or contact:
Tom Donegan
Children’s Book Festival

Tel: +353 1 872 74 75
E-mail: tom@childrensbooksireland.ie

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Children's Book Festival October 2008

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