Things are starting to sell out at our festival!

Continuing my reading of the Carnegie shortlist. Second book set in Glasgow!

Tickets for the first Canterbury Children's Literature Festival are now on sale! Lots of free or pay as you feel events & everything else is available with tiered pricing. Go browse & please share with everyone!

We are getting so close to revealing the amazing programme for the first Canterbury Children's Literature Festival! Unveiled on Sunday,head over & sign up for our emails to get it all directly to your inbox. There's something for everyone, from babies to teens & even a couple of events for adults.

A pleasure to be attending the @carolinelucas.bsky.social talk as part of the @favlit.org

Really looking forwards to hearing the talk. Supporting other great literary events like this in the area is super important to us - and it's awesome to see it sold out!

#faversham #litfest #carolinelucas

Our festival is launching this July and we can't wait! A 3 day programme of amazing authors, illustrators, storytellers and more in schools and venues across Canterbury, Sturry and Herne.

Find out more here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/canterbury-childrens-literature-festival

Focusing on happy things today, here are the first 3 pictures of books from my camera roll (one my youngest has just finished, one for our Squirrels session this week, and 2 for #childrensmentalhealthweek. Show me yours?

Our festival is a multi venue space, made possible by collaboration from incredible partners including Wildwood Trust. Through July 11-13th there will be a range of different trails, craft events, story telling & other events happening at Wildwood and you can explore them all when you visit the park

Currently reading Hike It by Iron Tazz and Martin Stanev and learning lots!

Some amazing support for our crowdfunder this week! We've got a solid start but still a long way to go to get where we'd like to be for our first festival in July.

If you're able to support, it would be appreciated massively
Www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/canterbury-childrens-literature-festival

My own kids have been brought up absolutely surrounded by books. My vision for our festival is to do this in micro with stories in all formats for the children of Canterbury!

This is our team of 2 (currently unpaid) organisers, fundraisers, programmers, marketers, website designers, local outreach co-ordinators, site managers, volunteer co-ordinators, whatever else you can think of, we're doing it! Hello!

Exciting things have been happening here today, our crowd is increasing over on crowdfunder (link below) and we're in the new Canterbury BID leaflet!

A few days into our #crowdfunder & I'm here to say Please support!

Reading is so important to a childs development - Our festival aims to be a way to foster a interest in and love of books - one that will last a lifetime!

Help make our dream a reality - #canterburykidslitfest #support #litfest

Some of our favourite graphic novels for kids and teens. We'd love to hear some of yours!

Ok #bluesky, we need your help!
If you're feeling sad today, might I suggest signing up for our emails, sharing our pinned post or indeed supporting our crowdfunder, all of which will mean you're helping bring a festival dedicated to the joy and wonder of stories, to life!

We are now crowdfunding! If you love the idea of a lit fest celebrating all the formats of storytelling with events accessible for different needs and so many incredible authors, all happening in amazing venues across Canterbury, please share & support!

Our crowdfunder will be launching in the next couple of weeks & has loads of great and essential ways that YOU can help create an amazing, joyful festival of picture books, novels, graphic novels, audiobooks, storytelling and so much more for the kids of Canterbury & around!

Well, you have to start somewhere - so let's share our new logo!

Book lovers everywhere, follow and share us as we start a journey of bookish adventure!

#canterburykidslitfest coming to #canterbury in July 2025!