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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · May 28

We are so excited about how well tickets are going for this year’s festival. Don’t leave it too late to secure your tickets and miss out on some fantastic family events

staustellfestivalofchildrensliterature.com/events/

#whatsoncornwall #staustell

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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · May 27

This is going to be quite a contest. Luckily we have a great referee lined up…

Steve May @stevemaythe1st.bsky.social · May 27

I'm in SERIOUS training for our Draw-Off at @staustelllitfest.bsky.social

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · May 26

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Choose your seat in the literary festival event tent.

Image: lines of chairs set out in a tent, a stage at the front has two more chairs on it.

The chairs are colour-coded and labelled
1. Awkwardly close
2. Too far away
3. Good view / can't hear
4. Good sound / can't see
5. In a cold draught
6. Behind a giant
7. Between a chatter and a shusher
8. Very creaky chair
9. Great seat / wrong event

A single yellow chair is labelled:
10. Just right!

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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · May 24

Okay…. JUST 3 weeks till it’s go go go on our Family Festival day!! Have you got your tickets yet?!

All just £1 each…you read right…just ONE POUND a ticket!!

Pop over to our website to see all the amazing events we have for you on Saturday 14th June 🙌🏻📚🙌🏻📚🙌🏻 staustellfestivalofchildrensliterature.com

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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · May 23

How lucky are we that @whatsfsaid.bsky.social will be talking to teachers about the life changing power of reading for pleasure. Join us at Brannel School on 12th June. Tickets are free. Save your soace now www.ticketsource.co.uk/cornwall-edu...

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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · May 23

Tickets going fast! Get yours now - fun for all the family. Will Steve be your team captain?

staustellfestivalofchildrensliterature.com/events/

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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · May 20

We’re thrilled to announce that First News is the official media partner of the St Austell Festival of Children’s Literature 2025! 🗞️

Join us for a weekend of storytelling, creativity and kids making headlines!
www.staustellfestivalofchildrensliterature.co.uk
#FirstNews #YoungReporters

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · May 19

Come to @staustelllitfest.bsky.social! I'll be talking about reading for pleasure in an event for school staff on 12 June; then doing a solo event & a panel for Schools' Day 13 June - bring your kids!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cornwall-edu...

staustellfestivalofchildrensliterature.com/2025-festiva...

Poster for SF Said event in St Austell Lit Fest Schools' Day 13 June, From Varjak Paw To Tyger, showing the author and the cover of Tyger

Poster for Panel event in St Austell LitFest Schools' Day 13 June, showing the authors SF Said, Stew Foster & Cath Howe

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · May 16

I'm excited to be talking about the life-changing power of reading for pleasure at this @staustelllitfest.bsky.social event for teachers, librarians & all school staff in Cornwall! Come & join on us on June 12!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cornwall-edu...

Simon @simonpollard72.bsky.social · Apr 28

We are so excited to share that @whatsfsaid.bsky.social will be talking to school staff in Cornwall about the life changing power of reading for pleasure on 12th June. Grab your free tickets now #cornwall #teachers #schools #readingforpleasure

www.ticketsource.co.uk/cornwall-edu...

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · May 8

Not only is Supertato co-creator Sue Hendra coming to St Austell on 14th June, but the ACTUAL Supertato is coming too!!!

Are you coming along to meet him? Thanks to support from St Austell BID. @simonandschuster.bsky.social

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · May 5

Or, if you prefer a smaller bookshop:

Title: The exceedingly tiny bookshop

It is no wider than its own narrow door but is easy to find as there is always a queue of eager customers outside.

One at a time, they enter to find themselves uncomfortably close to the proprietor. His impeccable suggestions are mote than worth the indignity.

In the miniature stockroom a professional contortionist is employed to unpack deliveries and replenish the display.

The shelves can accommodate only eleven volumes, but each is chosen with such care that nobody leaves empty handed.

On Saturday mornings, a local author reads stories to as many small children as can be wedged into the shop.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · May 4

‘The Comprehensive Bookshop” - my cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

Title: The Comprehensive Bookshop

Image: an enormous, low building fills the frame, running almost to the horizon in a featureless desert.

Captions:
A ceaseless stream of delivery trucks flows from publishers' warehouses to an ever-expanding building out in the desert. Within, hundreds of miles of shelving hold copies of every book ever published.

Customers arrive with authors or genres in mind, but the near infinite choice and maze of passages soon overwhelm them. Cars decay in the parking lot as their owners browse for months on end.

The bedraggled figures who occasionally stagger from the exit are taken to a nearby hospital, but upon recovering, inevitably "Just pop back to grab a few more books."

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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · May 4

This is a fabulous opportunity to have fun and spend time with some of your favourite authors. Hosted by our festival patron @afsteadman.bsky.social each team will have one of this year’s authors as captain. Every ticket supports our events staustellfestivalofchildrensliterature.com/event/the-bi...

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · Apr 22

A thought for the new term. READING FOR PLEASURE is the most important thing in education: more important than any test scores, or any of the hoops we make our kids jump through. So whatever else you do, please never stop helping kids find books to read & love. It will change their lives! #literacy

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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · Apr 23

We are continually striving to bring the best in children’s publishing to St Austell, Cornwall. This year is no exception and all for £1 staustellfestivalofchildrensliterature.com/2025-festival/ #festival #author #reading #cornwall #families #books

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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · Apr 22

Tickets are NOW LIVE!

Look at our brand new website, meet the incredible authors & illustrators coming.

Tickets are only £1 – really!.

Book now – staustellfestivalofchildrensliterature.com/2025-festival/ - and tag families across Cornwall who’d love to join the fun #ReadingForPleasure #KidsLit

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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · Apr 20

Whose ready for this year’s festival? Tickets on sale from 22nd April when our uodated website will also be launched www.staustellfestivalofchildrensliterature.com #Cornwall #litfest #kidlituk #reading #authors

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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · Apr 20

We have lots of anecdotal evidence about the impact of the festival. This year we are undertaking a formal research project into the difference attending festival events might make to children’s reading attitudes and habits. Really excited about this! #research #readingforpleasure

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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · Apr 19

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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · Apr 19

We cannot wait to read this. We know it is going to be top class

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · Apr 14

Authors & publishers of illustrated books: Credit illustrators when you talk about your books, esp if you are using their ART (including book cover art) in any promo graphics.

Bonus: this also helps show that a HUMAN CREATIVE is behind the art, not generative AI.

#PicturesMeanBusiness #KidLit

Andrea Tsurumi @atsurumi.bsky.social · Apr 14

Betsy is a flippin' treasure. I've learned about so many great illustrators through her! And her shining a light is esp. appreciated when illustrators often get shunted back behind writers during book promo.

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Nosy Crow @nosycrow.bsky.social · Apr 7

Are you ready to play the ULTIMATE GAME? 💀

Request the thrilling sequel to the bestselling 'Escape Room' adventure from author @christopheredge.bsky.social on @netgalley.bsky.social. Discover an epic world packed with puzzles, action, and mystery!

👉 ow.ly/lHBS50VtHEi

Request to read Escape Room: Game Zero on NetGalley UK today!

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · Apr 4

Every single school should have a school library & a school librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER! #SchoolLibrarianDay #SchoolLibraryMonth

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · Mar 31

Reading is a radical act. Every time a child picks up a book, new possibilities open up that were not there before. And it has the biggest positive impact of all factors on children's life chances! Every time you help a kid to read for pleasure, you will change their lives FOREVER. #literacy #books

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staustelllitfest.bsky.social @staustelllitfest.bsky.social · Apr 1

What a very happy coincidence! Jennifer Killick’s latest book in the @readingrocks.bsky.social sub box and the very same author on our favourite podcast @islandofbrilliant.bsky.social #readingforpleasure #authors #books

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