Wild Words Kids Book Festival

The six th annual Wild Words Children’s Book Festival takes place in Carrick on Shannon from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th August 2017.

Wild Words is a festival of workshops and fun activities for children and their families to celebrate and enjoy books, to meet authors, and to encourage an interest in creative writing.

The festival is perfectly timed to give young people a fantastic weekend before the school year starts. For these couple of days the festival brings together some of Ireland’s l eading authors for a wonderfully varied programme of readings, workshops and fun activities. Many events are free and those that have a charge are workshops with small capacities. The festival starts in Carrick on Shannon librar y on Friday with t wo workshops - ‘Books for Babies’ for 0-2 year olds and ‘ Tales for Toddlers’ for

2- 4 year olds. All events on Saturday are held in the Dock with events for younger children in the morning working on to Drummer Hoff with Kate Wilson for 4-6 year olds; t wo separate events by the author of ‘Owl Bat Bat Owl’ Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick; and at 3pm ‘A World of Difference’ with Jane Mitchell and Bernadette Larkin. Based on true accounts, Jane Mitchell’s book ‘A Dangerous Crossing’ is the stor y of one boy’s search for refuge as he makes his way from Syria to the Turkish Border. One of the most exciting elements of this year’s festival is the Wild Words Masterclass Programme for young adults aged 14 to 17yrs who have started to write short stories and poetr y themselves.071 96 20789. For further information go to www.wildwords.ie.