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The annual Isle of Wight Story Festival gets underway at Newport’s Quay Arts today (Thursday).

Francesca Simon is among the stellar line-up of guests who will be at the event.

A Southampton-based children’s author is set to appear at the Isle of Wight Story Festival

A record year of new ETF launches brought with it the good, the bad, and the ugly—we weigh in on this year’s best and worst.

Comedians, film-makers and best selling authors for Isle of Wight Story Festival 2024.

Two sisters have collaborated across the Atlantic to create a children’s book for charity.

Bestsellers on festival schools programme ); THE line-up for this year’s Henley Literary Festival schools programme has been announced. It will run from October 4 to 8 and feature World Book Day illustrator Rob Biddulph, who will present his novel Peanut Jones & The Illustrated City. Former children’s laureate and War Horse author Michael Morpurgo returns while Costa Children’s Book Award winner Natasha Farrant will present her new book, Voyage of the Sparrowhawk. Younger children wil...

It was when she became a mother that she began to consider writing for children. “All I did with my son, from when he was four months old, was sit around with armfuls of books from the library. Being around all these books, I started to get ideas about stories for children myself. I never had any ambitions to write for children. But you just don’t know what you are going to be good at.” When those first ideas, about a terror called Horrid Henry and his antagonistic relationship w...