Hear how unusual duo Potkin and Stubbs investigate crimes, learn how to create a detective story of your own and then try out your codebreaking skills.

Hear how unusual duo Potkin and Stubbs investigate crimes, learn how to create a detective story of your own and then try out your codebreaking skills.

Hear about The Butterfly Circus’ trapeze wonder duo Tansy and Belle, then make your own tethered weight poi out of recycled materials and master a circus skill.

Hear about Merry Owen and her discovery of a mysterious and dangerous buried chest, then make your own bow and arrow.

Hear about Dimitri, the boy who tells everyone at nursery that he loves them, but worries that nobody loves him back, then make a menagerie of animals from heart shapes.

Hear about Dimitri, the boy who tells everyone at nursery that he loves them, but worries that nobody loves him back.

Hear about Julia’s Strong Winds series, set along the Suffolk Coast, then make some origami boats, fish and other marine creatures.

Meet the ‘spiky-nosed’ characters from Football School, Billy Bonkers, Ally’s World and Max Archer, Kid Detective, then have a go at creating, drawing and making a world for your own character.

Celebrate 30 years of Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury’s children’s classic.

Based on the classic novel and filmed at the National Railway Museum in York, featuring the original locomotive from the much-loved 1970 film.

Based on the classic novel and filmed at the National Railway Museum in York, featuring the original locomotive from the much-loved 1970 film.

Based on the classic novel and filmed at the National Railway Museum in York, featuring the original locomotive from the much-loved 1970 film.

Polly Dunbar introduces us to a frustrated toddler seeing RED RED RED and his mum, who suggests he counts to ten to calm down.

Discover the dramatic, enthralling and atmospheric Scandinavian myths of one-eyed Odin, Thor with his mighty hammer and Loki the shape-shifting trickster, then create and decorate your own hammer with air dry clay.

Discover some of the the eerie and magical, dark and funny folktales from across Britain and Ireland that have passed from generation to generation over hundreds of years.

Join us for stories and crafts based on Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet’s Supertato - the superhero who’s always there for you when the chips are down!

One day, while looking through a mysterious cabinet of curiosities, Maxwell finds himself erased from his life, as if he’s never been born. Find out more about Maxwell’s story, then make a dog coaster.

Join us for a fun session themed around Fing, by David Walliams.

Watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) with arts and crafts, games and snacks.

We’re having a Peppa Pig party!

Celebrate Suffolk’s favourite children’s book!

An amazing event to close the Waveney Kids’ Book Festival. Hear Zeb read the two Gaspard the Fox stories accompanied by live music from professional composer/pianist Chris Warner and watch James create live illustrations, then make fox masks, plates and puppets.