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Bath Kids Lit Fest 2026 in under a minute!
If we could do it all over again we would! We’ve had a fantastic time and we have loved welcoming you all to join in with storytelling, illustration, games, quizzes, dance offs, races, draw-alongs, workshops and more - all to celebrate the magic of children’s literature.
A HUGE thank you to Longleat for partnering with us and we’ve loved going on this journey with them for a second year. Animals and stories are what kids’ worlds are made of after all!
Thank you to everyone else who have helped along the way too from Postscript to Marshfield Ice Creams and our wonderful cohort of loyal volunteers.
Is this it for this year? Not quite… hurrah!
Don’t forget we have Levi Penfold on Sat 10 October at 5pm at Christ Church with The Art of Harry Potter and The World of Jamie Smart on Monday 2 November at 6pm at The Forum.
Tickets (as always) available from @bathboxoffice but you’ll have to be quick!
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04 Oct 2026
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Bath Children’s Literature Festival will be staged in association with Longleat.
The festival runs from Friday 26 September to Sunday 5 October in venues across Bath and we’ll be welcoming some of the biggest and best loved names in the world of children’s books to a family audience of thousands.
Bath Children’s Literature Festival is the UK’s largest stand alone children’s book festival and Longleat is one of the first stately homes to open to the public in 1949, creating the first safari park outside Africa nearly 60 years ago.
🦁📚 Members at Longleat and Friends of Bath Festivals will enjoy priority access to festival tickets. 📚🦁
The Bath Children’s Literature Festival 2025 programme will be announced soon... it’s going to be grrrreat so watch this space!
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17 Apr 2025
😱 What an amazing night, and my biggest show yet! Over 1,600 people (thank you SO MUCH to everyone who came) inside The Forum theatre in Bath, all of us drawing ridiculous comics about chutney monsters and giant gherkins together. And Bunny and Monkey themselves joined us on stage for a rather epic draw off! I had such fun and I hope everyone else did too.
I’d spent most of the day signing posters (1650 of em!) and books (1000 of em!), and I got to meet some of the people who’d come to the show, some of whom had literally flown in for it. It was so nice to see you all!
A huge thank you to everyone at Bath Literary Festival who looked after me so well and worked so hard to bring the show together. Thanks too to Katie and Fraser and everyone at DFB for making sure it all ran smoothly, and Waterstones too. And thank you to Anna Barclay for the show photos. We’ve had such a great time.
In between all that, we’ve eaten some good food, explored Bath (which is beautiful) and went to the rooftop spa and the Mary Shelley Museum. It’s been such a fun trip.
See you at the next one!
03 Nov 2026
We had a fantastic evening with Jamie Smart at The Forum exploring the world of Bunny vs Monkey. We even welcomed Bunny and Monkey to the stage and challenged them to draw each other! Who do you think won?!
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02 Nov 2026
Tonight we are giving away a unique Bath-themed Bunny v Monkey poster to every attendee! Signed.
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02 Nov 2026
All thanks to you...
Did you know that the week between the two weekends of the Bath Children’s Literature Festival we are busy hosting our School Programme. Thousands of children flock into Central Bath from nearby schools to enjoy events from a range of authors and illustrators.
Every child who comes to these school events gets to take home a signed book from the author to call their very own.
The money from the tickets you buy to the weekend events supports this offer, so from us and the children who all received a free book this autumn - thank you!
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31 Oct 2026
Author-illustrator James Lancett was our artist in residence at Waterstones for free drop-in sessions on the last day of the festival.
Holding his cuddly green companion, Jello the alien, James introduced us to the Galaxy Runners, the space crew in his very first adventure book.
This was a great experience for children to be able to sit in such an informal setting and enjoy a chat about the author’s book.
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27 Oct 2026
Hannah Gold’s growing army of readers were so excited to get their hands on the new paperback, The Lone Husky, just ahead of publication date.
This was the third time Hannah, author of bestsellers The Last Bear and The Lost Whale, had come to the festival and each time more and more people have come to hear about her wonderful adventure books that celebrate the friendship between children and animals.
There were gasps of wonder and ‘oohs’ at the film clips Hannah shared of polar bears and Siberian huskies, including a scene of her dog sledding behind a pack of huskies in the Arctic as part of her research for the latest book. And it came as no surprise that when she asked the children in the room how many of them wanted to be authors, that SO many hands shot up!
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23 Oct 2026
What a pleasure to welcome the founder of the fabulous Little People Big Dreams series to Bath.
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara joined host Athena and musician Dom for a high energy game show, part of the ten year celebrations of the iconic series that Maria Isabel created about famous people.
There was lots of audience participation, with singing, quizzes and prizes.
After the show we felt lifted up by the powerful message that our own little dreamers will grow up to make the world a better place.
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21 Oct 2026
The magical story of how a woman rescued and befriended a wild hare was brought vividly to life by author Chloe Dalton.
Raising Hare is the special, illustrated children’s edition of her international bestselling book. We discovered that there were a lot of young naturalists in the audience, fascinated by these beautiful, elusive creatures.
Here’s Chloe’s top tip for spotting a hare in the wild. “Look in the middle of the field, away from the hedges, that’s where you’re most likely to see them.”
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19 Oct 2026
We are so proud and pleased to welcome FIVE former Children’s Laureates to the festival this year.
The national award is made every two years to recognise illustrators and writers who are outstanding in their field.
These champions of children’s literature who have all entertained us this year are: Julia Donaldson, Chris Riddell, Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Rosen and Cressida Cowell. Thank you all for everything you do to foster a love of reading in children!
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17 Oct 2026
This is one Well Travelled Baby.
The last few weekends have been a flurry of festival joy, unleashing Mr Hyde on the unsuspecting locales of @jerseyfestivalofwords @holmfirth_book_festival @bathkidslitfest @ipswichbookfestival and @guildfordbookfestival.
It’s going to sound soppy, but it is so genuinely inspiring watching the work these festivals do to bring events to young readers - for many children, it’s their first experience meeting an author/ realising that authors aren’t just deceased bearded chaps, overfond of using the word ‘thusly.’
A special shout out to Lily - a reviewer and often-dweller of @dial_lane_books - who led a brilliant, and only slightly spookily well researched Q&A in Ipswich. Thank you to Andrew for making this happen.
I was informed there was a charming poster of me outside the theatre at Guildford yesterday. Alas when I got there, Poirot had taken my place - as is only right and proper. Have a pic of that as well because WHY THE HECK NOT.
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11 Oct 2026
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