Tag Archives: children’s literature

The hottest ticket in town – Family Day at the Literature Festival

8 May
A F Harrold
A F Harrold in action
Mandy Burton reads from The Loveliest Loo
The farm’s eco toilet was the backdrop for Mandy’s reading
Making tin phones like Tiger and Tom do with Sarah Lean
Piggery Jokery by Hand to Mouth Theatre Company
Sarah Lean reads from Tiger Days

On the hottest day of the year so far, we sent Chronicler Milo (9) to report from Swindon’s Festival of Literature’s Children & Families Day. Continue reading →

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Tribes author gives budding writers a boost

13 May

T M Alexander at Lower Shaw Family Fun Day, a Swindon Festival of Literature event

Children love stories, and love writing stories to entertain themselves and others. But how do you get primary school aged children thinking about plot and characterisation?

And at the Lower Shaw Family Fun Day, a Swindon Festival of Literature event, T M Alexander – author of the Tribes series, a kind of Famous Five for the new millennium – was on hand to take budding young authors through the creative stages of writing their own story. Continue reading →

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