TEACHERS OF TOWER HAMLETS! What a top job you've done! Our FREE events with MG Leonard, Guy Bass, Selina Brown AND Maxwell A Oginni are now fully booked. The top news is we still have spaces available at some of our other amazing venues around London so get booking now www.londonschoolslitfest.org
GET READY! 2026 POSTER REVEAL ALERT! 👀
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🔊LONDON TEACHERS! It's World Book Day week so we're keeping the great kids' book vibes coming with our amazing FREE author and illustrator events all over London. Make sure your class doesn't miss out! BOOK NOW www.londonschoolslitfest.org
Happy World Book Day everyone! This means it's time for our annual reminder that we love dressing up as much as the next festival, but how about making some time to read with your child today? Even ten minutes will make a lifetime of difference and it's FUN too!
Illustration: Shirley Hughes 1983
Happy World Book Day everyone!
📢LONDON TEACHERS! We still have space for a couple of classes at our amazing FREE events with THE Michael Rosen, Patrice Lawrence AND Sophy Henn on Thursday 21 May but you need to book right now. And we mean NOW! www.londonschoolslitfest.org
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Hooray! #WorldBookDay here we come!
Welcome to World Book Day week everyone!
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TEACHERS OF EALING! Bring your classroom to the Festival! We're bringing our FREE London Schools Literature Festival back to The Questors Theatre on Friday 5 June with Ross Welford, Sufiya Ahmed AND Mariajo Illustrajo. BOOK NOW www.londonschoolslitfest.org
LONDON TEACHERS! Welcome back to Spring term! Have you booked for our FREE Primary Schools Programme yet? 🙋
We're providing over 20,000 places at our amazing author & illustrator events FREE for primary schools all over London and they're filling fast so BOOK NOW www.barneskidslitfest.org/schools/
🚨LONDON TEACHERS! Before you head off for half term, don't forget to book for our largest ever FREE Schools Festival for the National Year of Reading, over 20,000 places at our amazing author and illustrator events all over London. Check out our full programme here www.londonschoolslitfest.org
TEACHERS OF WANDSWORTH! We're bringing our FREE London Schools Literature Festival back to Battersea Arts Centre on Monday 15 June with Simon Mole, Rashmi Sirdeshpande AND Sharna Jackson. Check out all our London venues here www.londonschoolslitfest.org
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Welcome Croydon to the UK's largest children's literature festival! We're providing over 2,100 new places FREE for primary schools in Croydon for the first time on Wednesday 17 June thanks to our friends from the John Whitgift Foundation. Check out our full programme ➡️ www.londonschoolslitfest.org
⚠️LONDON TEACHERS! Our London Schools Literature Festival is here with over 20,000 FREE places at our amazing author & illustrator events all over London, from Twickenham Stadium to Tower Hamlets! Check out whether we're coming to your borough NOW! www.londonschoolslitfest.org
👋HELLO Hackney and welcome to the UK's largest children's literature festival! We're providing 2,000 new places FREE for primary schools in Hackney for the first time on Thursday 4 June thanks to our friends @hackneyempire.bsky.social Check out our full programme here www.londonschoolslitfest.org
🎪INTRODUCING the London Schools Literature Festival for 2026!
We're so proud to be providing 22,000 places at our amazing author and illustrator events FREE for primary schools all over London so check out whether we're coming to a venue near your school soon! www.barneskidslitfest.org/schools/
HOORAY! It's the National Year of Reading so we're launching our largest ever London Primary Schools Programme, over 22,000 places FREE for state schools from Twickenham Stadium to Tower Hamlets. Celebrating the National Year of Reading every year since 2015! www.barneskidslitfest.org/schools/
Our amazing volunteer Kirsten has kicked off her new blog! Check it out! 👀
You know what they say? The best way to get over an old year is to get stuck into a new one! So start your year right folks! Join our mailing list and get first crack at tix for the UK's biggest kids' books party on Sat 27 & Sun 28 June👉 www.barneskidslitfest.org
Pic. @mglnrd.bsky.social #BCLF2023
📅Got your 2026 diary handy? Well get ready to fill its fresh pages with the UK's biggest kids' book festival blasting off on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 June. PEN IT IN PEOPLE! www.barneskidslitfest.org
Pic. MC Grammar #BCLF2025
LET'S GO 2026! 🌠Happy New Year Barnestormers! Just 177 sleeps until the UK's biggest kids' books festival returns on Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 June. BRING. IT. ON www.barneskidslitfest.org
Don't bother inviting us unless your New Year's Eve is going to look like this!⬇️
Hooray! It's #BoxingDay or as we like to call it BOOKSing Day!
Illustration: James Mayhew from Mouse and Mole: The Secret of Happiness by Joyce Dunbar published by Graffeg Books 2021
🎄Merry Christmas everyone!
Illustration: Mog's Christmas by Judith Kerr published by Harper Collins Children's Books 1976
'The two friends sat by the fire.
The hands of the clock move
to show the hours
of a merry #ChristmasEve.'
Frog and Toad All Year by #ArnoldLobel 1976
THANK YOU BARNESTORMERS! Our Christmas Art Auction raised nearly £2,000 for our 2026 Primary Schools Programme helping us provide over 24,000 places at our amazing author and illustrator events FREE for children from state schools all over London. Cheers you legends!🙏
Pic. #AxelScheffler #BCLF2016
💣LAST CHANCE BARNESTORMERS!
Bidding for our Christmas Art Auction Fundraiser for our FREE Primary Schools Programme closes at 8.00pm TONIGHT Sunday 14 December. Bid! Bid! BID! www.jumblebee.co.uk/christmas202...
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🎁OK CHRISTMAS SHOPPING! LET'S DO THIS!
Don't miss your chance to own original art by THE #AxelScheffler & all your Festi-faves AND support our FREE Primary Schools Programme. BID NOW www.jumblebee.co.uk/christmas202...
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⭐️Happy Friday Happy Hills fans! ⭐️
Get your hands on these hand-drawn and coloured set of Happy Hills gang cards by @sophyhenn.bsky.social AND support our London Primary Schools Programme, over 24,000 FREE places for state schools in 2026. BID! BID! BID! www.jumblebee.co.uk/christmas202...
BID NOW ON OUR CHRISTMAS ART AUCTION FUNDRAISER!
Own original artwork by the UK's top illustrators AND help us provide over 24,000 places at our amazing events FREE for schools all over London. Bids close 8.00pm this Sunday 14 December www.jumblebee.co.uk/christmas202...
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GIVE THE GIFT OF THE SCARECROW THIS CHRISTMAS!
Here's your chance to own original illustrations of Harry O'Hay & Betty O'Barley from The Scarecrow's Wedding by #AxelScheffler AND support our Primary Schools Programme with over 24,000 FREE places in 2026. BID NOW www.jumblebee.co.uk/christmas202...
