 And we're off!
The new school year is well underway, the leaves are turning all sorts of lovely colours and the smell of erupting volcanoes is in the air... must be Children's Book Festival time again!
This October we encourage you to grab your favourite book, pour yourself a
nice cold drink and join our very own book loving dino-mascot for a nice relaxing read!
If you're unsure of what title to chose, you'll discover loads of fantastic suggestions in the brand new 2009 Book Fest Recommended Reading Guide - available free of charge from bookshops and libraries during the festival (and now online too!).
There will also be a full programme of events and activities taking place
across the country, including 'meet the author' sessions, illustration
workshops, creative writing workshops and much, much more.
The CBF blog also has reports from events nationwide and will be updated every day.
Add to this a host of brilliant competitions where you can win loads of
cool prizes and you'll be spoilt for choice wherever you are!
Want to know who's coming to a library near you during October? Click here!
READ ALL ABOUT IT! To view a selection of the most recent press and TV pieces featuring festival authors and events please click here .
A brilliant new books competition has just been launched - for further details click here
Comic jams, Manga madness and manky monsters await aspiring artists who
make it along to Dublin's Central Hotel on Saturday 17th October.
For more details on this exciting new partnership event for 2009 please click here !
To celebrate the forthcoming publication of the brilliant 2009 BookFest: Recommended Reading Guide CBI have launched a brand new competition.
We're asking young readers around the country to name the dinosaur
featured in this year's festival poster. Sending in your entry couldn't
be simpler, just fill in the online form and you're away!
Full details are available here.
Following its initial success last year, CBI and the O'Brien Press
have once again joined forces to organise another fanstatic Cover
Design competition, guarenteed to get young artists' creative juices
flowing!
The challenge this time is to design a new front cover for a special edition of Sam McBratney's classic title The Lough Neagh Monster, set for publication in Spring 2010.
For full details of how your school or library can join in the fun this October please click here
The festival blog is THE place to read reports from festival events taking place around the country. CLICK HERE to access the latest posts
NB. Although the blog is hosted and updated by CBI, librarians, artists
and publishers involved in the festival are very welcome to add their
own posts as well. For futher information please
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