WOW! What a ride! Barnestormers you really surpassed yourselves! Giant thanks to all our amazing authors, illustrators and volunteers for being so much fun and everyone who came along to the UK's largest dedicated children's literature festival to share our big book love. Get ready for our 10th birthday blowout on Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 June 2024! Love, love and more love, BCLF HQ XO
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; A massive, many happy returns to our friend @frankcottrell_b #BOTD. Children's literature champion since 1959!
Pic. #BCLF2023Schools @Twickenhamstad
'This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.' #TheHobbit by #JRRTolkien first published #OTD 1937
Have a very merry #HobbitDay everyone!
#MauriceSendak's masterpiece #IntheNightKitchen was published #OTD 1970. Waking up in the buff in a bakery with a bunch of bakers that look like Oliver Hardy though does sound like a bit of a nightmare, if you don't mind us saying...
“I’m delighted to welcome everyone to the very special Barnes Children’s Literature Festival. As the Chancellor of Roehampton I’m proud that the University is in partnership with the Festival and will involve our lecturers and students in the programme. As a writer of children’s books I have very fond memories of taking part in the Festival myself, and know it to be delightful, imaginative, innovative – and beautifully organised.
Enjoy, everyone!”
Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Chancellor, University of Roehampton
