Scottish Book Town Children's Festival
Wigtown Book Town
Children's Marquee, South Main Street
Wigtown is a historic market town on the Galloway coast, home to 900 people, a malt whisky distillery and a quarter of a million books. Its Autumn Festival provides ten days of readings, performances, exhibitions and debates which prompts a mass migration of bibliophiles from all over Britain to this green, pastoral corner of Scotland.
As part of the Book Town Festival, Wigtown is also hosting the Wigtown Literary Festival from Saturday 23rd September at the County Buildings in Wigtown. The complete programme is available from the Wigtown Book Town website, but BooksfromScotland.com have highlighted some of our favourite Scottish children's events.
Contact: Tel. 01988 403222, Email: mail@wigtown-booktown.co.uk
Saturday 23rd September
Tom Pow - 1pm - What should have been a dream holiday trekking in a National Park turns into a nightmare kidnapping in Tom Pow's latest book, Captives.
Charlie James - 2pm - Charlie James is the Edinburgh-based author of Fish, coming soon to BooksfromScotland.com
Cathy Cassidy - 1pm - The author of Dizzy and Driftwood returns with her latest story, Scarlett.
Sunday 24th September
Julie Hegarty - 2pm - A new picture book series from Julie Hegarty, telling the rock-pool tales of Michelle and her friends. The first book in the series is Crabbit Comes To Stay.
Mike Nicholson - 2.30pm - Winner of the 2005 Kelpies Prize. Fergus can't believe it when his brand new digital watch starts running backwards... but that's only the beginning of the mystery in Catscape.
Anne Forbes - 3.30pm - Feuding faery lords, magic carpets, ancient spells - and of course dragons - in Anne Forbes' Dragonfire.
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Add to BasketCaptives - Paperback -
£4.99
Martin could never have predicted what would happen when his family sign up for two day's trekking in the National Park during their holiday on the beautiful island of Santa Clara. This book presents a story about ten people thrown together under extraordinary circumstances and with devastating consequences. -
Add to BasketCatscape - Paperback -
£4.99
Fergus can't believe it when his new digital watch starts going backwards. When he bumps into Murdo, another new mystery comes to light - cats are going missing from the neighbourhood! As the two boys start to investigate, they find help in the most unusual places. -
Add to BasketDragonfire - Paperback -
£5.99
Set against the backdrop of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Military Tattoo, this is a fast-paced comic adventure, full of magic, mahyem and mystery - and a dragon. -
Add to BasketMichelle In: Crabbit Comes To Stay - Paperback -
£6.99
Michelle's friend Hermie is upset when he learns that his cousin Crabbit is coming to stay, since Crabbit is a bully. However, the reason for his bad behaviour soon becomes clear - he can't swim! -
Add to BasketScarlett - Paperback -
£5.99
Scarlett's not red like a sunset, she's red with rage. She cannot believe her mum is packing her off to Ireland to stay with the dad who left them. Surely he's the reason for everything going wrong, her never being able to stay in a school, rules always getting broken? They won't get round her so easily.