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Dear Barnes Children’s Literature Festival family, We do hope you and your families and friends have been managing to stay safe and sane during these strange times. We’re raring to go ahead in June but we’re also watching the same news reports about the coronavirus crisis as you are, and with things…

Everybody in Barnes was saddened by the passing of Judith Kerr on 22 May 2019. The children's literature legend fell ill a few days before her annual appearance at the Festival and died shortly after, just a couple of weeks before her 96th birthday.

Have you ever wondered what a cross between a witch and a mermaid would be like? Author Sibéal Pounder invited her festival audience to find out.

Before the show had even begun, eager parents and children were flooding into the packed out Book Marquee to grab a snap with legendary children's author Michael Rosen.

Axel Scheffler, illustrator of such favourites as Zog the dragon, the Ugly Five, and, of course, the Gruffalo, had a full house at the Barnes Children’s Literature Festival.

Libby Jackson, head of the Human Exploration Programme at the UK Space Agency, has a special message for girls and boys everywhere.

It has been 20 years since Skellig, and David Almond, esteemed author and proud 'Tynesider', still can’t believe how that magical story came to him.

Master storyteller Marcia Williams, author and illustrator of Mr William Shakespeare’s Plays, Greek Myths for Young Children and Three Cheers for Woman and many many more, has written her first novel!

Karen Inglis is a best-selling Amazon author who decided to self-publish after receiving rejections early on in her writing career.

15 objects in the 15 pockets of Chris’s magical, history-telling coat were all that he needed to capture the audience and power through the most important moments in history.

Dreams are something S F Said is fascinated by and uses a lot in his writing.

The queue to Matthew Syed’s event stretches way across Barnes Green.