Kids’book illustrators goonline forfestival
Stirling Libraries are looking forward to welcoming a host of author-illustrators online for this year’s Smallprint children’s book festival.
Tomorrow (Thursday) Ross Collins will be reading and hosting a draw-along from 2pm. Ross has illustrated more than 130 books for children and written around a dozen himself. His book “This is a Dog” won this year’s Bookbug Picture Book Award.
At 4.30pm author Anna Claybourne tells all about her new book series ‘A Question of Science’. Anna has written more than 300 children’s books on all kinds of subjects: from sharks, space and optical illusions to how to draw, weird weather, the brain, and myths and legends.
Friday sees Morag Hood read “Brenda is a Sheep” at 2pm, while showing viewers how to draw their own sheep. The award-winning picture book author and illustrator’s books have been distributed to children across Scotland as part of Scottish Book Trust’s Bookbug scheme. She loves “making up funny stories, print-making, and cutting and sticking”.
Also on Friday, children’s picture book writer and illustrator Debi Gliori hosts a special ‘read and draw-along’ from 4.30pm. Debi has five children and lives in a house outside Edinburgh, working from a fully-equipped studio in the garden. She is the author of more than 80 picture books and novels for children.
There’s a creative and crafty afternoon with children’s book illustrator Eilidh Muldoon at 2pm on Saturday. Eilidh will talk about the illustrations she created for the book “Fierce, Fearless and Free”, a collection of short traditional tales from around the world by children’s author Lari Don.
All of the author events will be live-streamed on the @stirlinglibs Facebook page on their set time and date. To view, simply visit the page, sit back and watch.