Waveney Kids' Book Festival
Southwold Arts Centre and Beccles Library, 19 - 27 October 2019
A variety of events and activities based around books, writing and drawing for children of all ages this October half-term.
Saturday 19 October
1030
Southwold Arts Centre
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.
1430
Beccles Library
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.
Sunday 20 October
1030
Southwold Arts Centre
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.
1430
Southwold Arts Centre
Hear about Merry Owen and her discovery of a mysterious and dangerous buried chest, then make your own bow and arrow.
Monday 21 October
1030
Southwold Arts Centre
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.
1430
Beccles Library
Hear about Dimitri, the boy who tells everyone at nursery that he loves them, but worries that nobody loves him back.
1430
Southwold Arts Centre
Hear about Julia’s Strong Winds series, set along the Suffolk Coast, then make some origami boats, fish and other marine creatures.
Tuesday 22 October
1030
Southwold Arts Centre
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.
1430
Southwold Arts Centre
Celebrate 30 years of Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury’s children’s classic.
Wednesday 23 October
1030
Southwold Arts Centre
Based on the classic novel and filmed at the National Railway Museum in York, featuring the original locomotive from the much-loved 1970 film.
1430
Southwold Arts Centre
Based on the classic novel and filmed at the National Railway Museum in York, featuring the original locomotive from the much-loved 1970 film.
1930
Southwold Arts Centre
Based on the classic novel and filmed at the National Railway Museum in York, featuring the original locomotive from the much-loved 1970 film.
Thursday 24 October
1030
Beccles Library
Polly Dunbar introduces us to a frustrated toddler seeing RED RED RED and his mum, who suggests he counts to ten to calm down.
1030
Southwold Arts Centre
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.
1430
Beccles Library
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.
1430
Southwold Arts Centre
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!
Friday 25 October
1030
Southwold Arts Centre
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.
1430
Southwold Arts Centre
Join us for a fun session themed around Fing, by David Walliams.
Saturday 26 October
1030
Southwold Arts Centre
Watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) with arts and crafts, games and snacks.
1430
Southwold Arts Centre
We’re having a Peppa Pig party!
Sunday 27 October
1030
Southwold Arts Centre
Celebrate Suffolk’s favourite children’s book!
1430
Southwold Arts Centre
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.