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Sausage flinging - and singing! - in Cheltenham

10/15/2018

 
The Ten Fat Sausages had another outing this weekend. I was thrilled to be invited back to The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival for a third time.
It's such a wonderful festival. I love the 'village' site at Montpelier Gardens. Even on a soaking wet weekend it's beautiful and there are plenty of brilliant venues to visit and enjoy.
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I was lucky enough to be joined on stage at the Parabola Arts Centre by musician David Gibb - if you haven't yet encountered David touring one of his albums across the UK, do check out when he might be near you. His family shows are the BEST FUN, with toe-tapping, catchy music you'll be singing aaaall week!
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HUGE THANKS to David for making the show so special! Thanks also to all the families who came to join the fun, to Cheltenham Festivals for having us, to Andersen Press for organising (I'll miss you, Harriet) and to Jeremy for the diva-style lift in the rain.
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Ten Fat Sausages at the Henley Festival

10/11/2018

 
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The Ten Fat Sausages are back on the road! I had a wonderful time revisiting the Henley Literary Festival.
Those Gower Cottage brownies - mmm, mmm! Thanks to all who came along and to the festival for making me and my family welcome.
Huge thanks to Harriet Dunlea at Andersen Press who has been a legend organising all my events. Best of luck in your new role, Harriet. Me and the sausages will miss you!


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Grandmas From Mars at the Bradford-On-Avon Mini Book Fest

7/16/2018

 
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It's been a while since I've posted on here, mainly because I've been CRAZY BUSY on tour with my 'Ten Fat Sausages' event. (You can still catch me at the Discover Story Centre in London August 3, and at Awesome Authors, part of CBBC's Summer Social in Liverpool on August 5!).
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Talking of Awesome Authors: three cheers for the team of local authors behind the brilliant Bradford-On-Avon Mini Book Fest, including Fleur Hitchcock, Maudie Smith and Anna Wilson. The whole team works tirelessly and generously to help their local library deliver a truly wonderful festival - and it's completely free to attend!

​There's so much to see, make, learn and do, all in support of the Summer Reading Challenge. It's amazing stuff and I can't wait to take my kids back next year.

Chatting to Beatrice who helped dress me as a rather green gran![/caption]I had a whale of a time invading the library with Fred Blunt and the Grandmas From Mars! Huge thanks to all who came along to join the fun - and thanks to the librarians and team at BOAMBF for having us. You guys are OUT OF THIS WORLD!
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Fred Blunt's masterclass in drawing alien grannies!

Ten Fat Sausages at the Oxford Literary Festival

3/19/2018

 
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I love performing with David Gibb - check out his albums and tours!
Reading just got even more rock 'n' roll! I'm just home from the Oxford Literary Festival where I had the most amazing time performing my Ten Fat Sausages and Odd Socks event, c/o Andersen Press.

The audience were wonderful! They totally deserved the extra treat: musician David Gibb very kindly joined me on stage for a supercool live performance of the sizzle-sizzle-bang song that I play as part of my show. EAR WORM!

For anyone who has come to any of my Ten Fat Sausages events: you can get the full version of David's ridiculously catchy song, titled Jelly on a Plate, on his latest album - I highly recommend it!
We had another chance to visit The Story Museum, which is without a doubt one of the Robinson family's favourite venues anywhere, ever. If you have a chance to visit it's well worth making the trip. I've never been anywhere that inspires such indulgence in the imagination. It's utterly magical.
​How lucky are we? We happened to be there the same day as Cressida Cowell and Mark Nicholas, so we bought tickets and went along to their event. Cressida's books were a huge inspiration to me when I was an aspiring children's author, so meeting her was a dream come true for me and my kids! Mark taught us how to make art with old socks, so we're going to give that a try this week at home.
Maybe today... there's so much snow in Frome that school is closed! HOORAY.
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Massive thanks to Harriet Dunlea at Andersen Press for her help organising such a brilliant book tour. Legend! Thanks also to the team at Oxford Literary Festival and The Story Museum for their help on the day. Last but by no means least, HUGE thanks to all who came along and joined the fun! It was great to meet you all.

Ten Fat Sausages on tour

3/1/2018

 
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Ever wondered what it's like to dress up as a giant sausage in front of hundreds of excited young children? Let me tell you: it's FUN.

I've had a wonderful few weeks touring the country to launch me and Tor Freeman's latest picture book, 'Ten Fat Sausages'. Thanks heaps to Harriet at Andersen Press and everyone else who has helped to arrange, plan and run the events so smoothly.

I've genuinely never enjoyed sharing a book as much as I have this one! I hope everyone I've met enjoyed has just as much fun as I did. Thanks so much for making this book arrive on the shelves with a POP and a BANG!

I'm not quite done yet! I'm still looking forward to meeting the children at Bristol Cathedral Primary School for our postponed World Book Day event (snow stopped play!) and to performing with David Gibb at the Oxford Literature Festival.
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Also: Ten Fat Sausages has been chosen as book of the day by BookTrust, is one of the Guardian's best new picture books and featured as LibraryMice's picture book of the week! Amazing!

Sheffield Children's Book Awards 2017

11/15/2017

 
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MASSIVE THANKS to Sheffield Libraries for including both 'A Beginner's Guide to Bear Spotting' by me and David Roberts and 'Odd Socks' by me and Rebecca Ashdown for their brilliant Sheffield Children's Book Awards!

I finally got to meet Rebecca at the event, as well as meeting and catching up with loads of other authors, illustrators, publishers, librarians and - always at the heart of these amazing awards - KIDS!
You can read the list of winning titles here (top picks for Christmas!).

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Have You Seen My Giraffe  . . . in Richmond?!

9/29/2017

 
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Thanks to the Alligator's Mouth for the warm welcome!
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Claire Powell is the most wonderful illustrator!

The shop (which is a children's book fan's paradise!) was packed with young giraffe spotters who watched Claire draw (scroll down for a pic!) while they listened to our story - they even let us paint their cheeky faces.
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We've loved visiting schools in Hampton and Crouch End, larking about with very magic markers, face paint and ossicones. Yes, ossicones - those knobbly horns on the top of a giraffe's head. Thanks to all who joined the fun, and to Hannah and Elisa at Simon & Schuster who helped it all run smoothly.
​Huge thanks to the Alligator's Mouth in Richmond for welcoming me and illustrator Claire Powell to their wonderful book shop yesterday! Clever clogs Claire designed, made and installed a really funny window display based on our picture book, 'Have You Seen My Giraffe?'

Launch party for ‘Have You Seen my Giraffe?’

7/6/2017

 
​Umpteen picture books later and I finally had my very first launch party! It was super special because it was 'have You Seen my Giraffe?' illustrator Claire Powell's first ever launch party too.

There was prosecco! There was popcorn! There was face paint! There was live drawing! There were inflatable giraffes! There was even real life giraffe adoption!

Massive thanks to Simon and Schuster and to Tales on Moon Lane for hosting us. Thanks also to everyone who made the journey to celebrate with us, you made an author and illustrator very happy!
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Bears spotted in Barnes!

5/15/2017

 
The Barnes Children's Literature Festival is GREAT. I was lucky enough to be invited back this year having performed my 'Goodnight Spaceman' event there in 2016. This year we all went on 'A Beginner's Guide to Bear Spotting' - and what fun we had.

Lots of children had brought along their bears, and we decided my own blue teddy bear should be called Sarah. Naturally. We imagined we were going on a trip to the woods and looking for bears. We made masks and the kids even helped me 'blend in' by camouflaging my face. You should have seen the look on Michael Rosen's face when I returned to the green room...
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I've since removed the face paint, but it stains and I still look a little jaundiced. A fair price to pay for a wonderful day out. As well as all the brilliant festival volunteers I also got to meet Beanstalk, Authorfy and one of my all time picture book faves Guy Parker-Rees. Plus I snuck in an ice cream before going home. With any luck I'll be back again next year.
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A lovely family day out
Thanks so much to Amanda and the team for inviting me and making me so welcome. Thanks also to all who came along - it was especially good to have a repeat visitor who said they enjoyed last year's event so much they had to come back. That made me feel very happy.
Looking forward to meeting more families (and buying more face wipes...) for Greenwich Book Festival on the 26th!

Barnes Children's Literature Festival

5/17/2016

 
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Well, didn't we all have a brilliant time in Barnes? What a wonderful festival. Thanks so much to Amanda Brettargh and her army of volunteers. Thanks also to all of the families who came along to join in the 'Goodnight Spaceman' fun. I was made to feel so welcome and I really enjoyed myself. I hope to be back next year!
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