Schools Programme
If you would like us to include your school in our music programme please let us know. Phone Susan Frize on 0141 956 4752 or email milngaviebookshop@hotmail.co.uk.
Book Festival Schools Programme 6-10 September 2011
This four day programme is packed with the best in children’s writing. We are committed to enabling children to engage in the wonderful world of books in many different ways with the focus firmly on participation, imagination and creation. Bring your pupils face-to-face with their favourite authors at events and book signings.
All this takes place in The Allander Evangelical Church behind Douglas Street carpark.
How to book
Places are limited so bookings are dealt with on a first-come-first-served basis.
Ticket prices: Pupils and Adults £1.50 each (one adult FREE with every 10 pupils)
To book tickets and check availability please contact Niki Cassels at Milngavie Bookshop on 0141 956 4752. Once your booking has been placed, please send your cheque to Milngavie Festival Limited, c/o 37 Douglas Street, Milngavie G62 6PE whereupon confirmation of the booking will be sent out to you.
15% discount on your books
Your pupils will get so much more from their Book Festival experience if they are able to read the relevant books beforehand. Milngavie Bookshop can supply books to schools in advance of your trip at a special 15% discount on multi-copy orders. Please order your books at the time of booking. The books will be delivered to the school free of charge. Please note this discount will not be available on the day of your visit.
Tuesday 6th, 11.30am
Cathy MacPhail P7/S1/S2
Where does an idea for a story come from? How does it grow, from the idea into the published book? For me, that is the real magic, but I think you can train your brain, to find ideas, and you can learn how to develop that idea into a story. I will show you how I did that with Grass, which won the Royal Mail Scottish Book Award this year, and Hide and Seek and all my other books, and maybe we can write a new story as well. Magic!
Tuesday 6th, 1.30pm
James Robertson P3/P4
Author James Robertson puts on his Itchy Coo hat for a session on Scots language featuring some of Roald Dahl’s stories translated into Scots, including The Eejits and The Sleekit Mr Tod. In Roald Dahl’s story about the world’s most revolting couple, Mr Twit was horrible and hairy and his wife Mrs Twit was just plain ugly. Now in The Eejits they are honkin, mawkit, bowfin and clarty and Mrs Eejit’s hackitness is revealed in all its manky glory. Great fun!
Wednesday 6th, 9.30am
Experience the world of theatre with Ann Harvey from the King’s Theatre P4/5
Ever wondered what goes on back stage at the theatre, how the trap doors work and scenery brought on to the stage? Ann Harvey and Janette McCartney, two of the District Publicity Assistants from the King’s Theatre in Glasgow will be giving a talk and slide show on the history of the famous Glasgow Theatre. They will telling you what goes on behind the scenes and are bringing costumes that have been worn by many of the wonderful characters that have tread the boards at the King’s. You can even try them on!
Photo courtesy of Jocelyn Durston
Wednesday 7th, 11.30am
Theresa Breslin P7
Carnegie medal winner Theresa Breslin is the popular best selling author of over 30 children’s books. These cover most age groups – her best known being the Dream Master series, Bullies at School, Alligator,Remembrance, Whispers in the Graveyard (featuring a dyslexic boy) and of course Divided City, a fast-paced story about football rivalry and friendship, set in Glasgow and recently staged by the Citizen’s Theatre in a youth production. Come and hear her talk about her work and join in the discussion.
Wednesday 7th, 1.30pm
Alan Burnett P5/P6/P7
Allan Burnett was born and brought up in the Western Isles and educated at the University of Edinburgh. He gained a distinction for his postgraduate thesis on constitutional history while working after dark as a ghost-tour guide. Allan has written for a number of newspapers and magazines and is the author of several books including the acclaimed ‘And All That’ children’s history series. Join Allan on a time-travel adventure featuring William Wallace, the Loch Ness Monster and Mary, Queen of Scots. Learn about magic and battles, everyday life and great Scottish inventions. This is blood-spattered Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.
Thursday 8th 11.30am
Lari Don P1/P2 - 11.30am
Lari Don’s first children’s book, First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts, was published three years ago, and won the Royal Mail Award for Scottish Children’s Books. Since then, Lari has published six other books, including picture books and retellings of old myths. This year, her second picture book, How to Make a Heron Happy, has been published. ‘.Hamish is worried about the heron in the park, because it always looks grumpy, so he has lots of ideas to cheer it up. But maybe it isn’t grumpy after all…’
Thursday 8th, 1.30pm
Lari Don P4/P5
Lari Don’s first children’s book, First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts, was published three years ago, and won the Royal Mail Award for Scottish Children’s Books. Since then, Lari has published six other books, including picture books and retellings of old myths. This year, she has published the third adventure in the Fabled Beast series, Storm Singing, retelling a 5,000 year old Sumerian myth. She lives in Edinburgh, has worked in radio and politics, and is also a professional storyteller.
Friday 9th, 11.30am
Moira Munro P1/P2
Bring along your teddy bear and hear how Moira Munro wrote and illustrated ‘Hamish the Bear Who Found His Child’ and ‘Hamish and the Missing Teddy’. Why did it take her 153 goes to draw Hamish? She’ll tell you stories, draw pictures, sing songs. As she makes a terrible mess of all these things, please, PLEASE would you come and help her get them right?
