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ST
ALBANS CHILDREN’S BOOK GROUP
Tues 14 Nov, Storybox with
Helen Bromley at Oakwood School. Helen will work with Year 6 children making
‘Fairy Tales and Fantasy’ story boxes, during part of the school day.
Also in November/December we will have a display in St Albans
Central Library relating to ‘Christmas Fun and Fantasy’ events planned for
December to coincide with ‘Fairy Tales and Fantasy’ an exhibition of
children’s book illustrations 1850 -1930 at Museum of St Albans, Hatfield
Road. The exhibition is open from 25 November – 7 January.
Sat 2 Dec, 2 - 4pm James Mayhew storytelling and illustration workshop, 7-11 year olds. James, author and illustrator of ‘Katie and The Dinosaurs’, ‘Katie and The Impressionists’
and others, will tell and illustrate the story of The Firebird then you can try
creating your own illustrated tale. Cost £5 (£4.50 for book group members.)
Sun 3 Dec, 3 - 4pm A tea
party for elves, gnomes and fairies aged under 7. Please come in fancy dress
for this special event. There will be storytelling and other party games and
treats. Cost £2 (£1.50 for book group members.) Children need to be accompanied by an adult.
Sat 9 Dec, 2 - 4pm Storybox
with Helen Bromley, writer and lecturer, 7-11 year olds. A magical way of
creating your own stories. Cost £5 (£4.50 for book group members.)
Sun 10 Dec, 2.30 - 4.30pm
Meet Raymond Briggs’ Snowman. Bring your camera along and get a photo of
yourself with the Snowman. Activity sheets also available. Free
event
All the activities are at Museum of St Albans and, as places are
limited, except the Snowman event, need to be booked in advance on 01727
819340.
There will be some special books for sale at all of these events We
will also be selling books at Oakwood Christmas Fair on Sat 2 Dec.
If you can help at any of these events, we need a storyteller for the tea party
and people to sell books at the museum and Oakwood. We will be very grateful
for your support. Please contact me if you can help.
Books will be for sales at
full price at Oakwood School and the Museum of St Albans. However book group
members can obtain books from the publishers we are using this time with
10%discount by ordering them in advance. If you wish to do this please telephone
Rachel Johnstone on 842822 as soon as possible.
Any books not sold at Oakwood School and the Museum of St Albans will
be sold to book group members with 10% discount at a Christmas
Party/Get-together/Book Sale on the evening of 16 December 2000, venue to be
decided.
Our Annual General Meeting will be in January. We look
forward to new people joining the committee.
Have you read any books which you would like to recommend to others or
just tell us about? It might be a book which you thought you’d like and then
found you didn’t or that others say is brilliant and you have a different point
of view. Who took part in this summers’ Reading Relay? Could you tell us about
some of the books you read? What about picture books? Are there any
illustrators/illustrations you have comments on? We would like to hear from
reviewers of all ages. Please send your reviews/pictures to me.
On the subject of reviews and reviewers, we are looking for a members
who would volunteer to review books, we can use the same categories as
Children’s Book Award, Picture Book, Shorter Novel and Longer Novel. If we can
get a number of volunteers, we will then approach publishers to request review
copies. Reviews will appear in our newsletter and the books, if appropriate,
will be collected and donated, as we have done in the past, to charitable
organisations. If you can help with this please contact me.
Griselda Gifford will be at
Attakari Bookshop, 1 The Forum Stevenage, on 9
Dec. in the morning and at Words Bookshop, Olney on 18 Nov. approx. 11
to 1.30, signing her book, DANGER AT THE DOGHOUSE! (price £3.99) published by
Andersen Press. This book is suitable for children aged 8 - 11.
Griselda Gifford's latest book, 'Danger at the Doghouse' was partly inspired
by a local kennels, The Hound Hotel, Harlington, and also by the new family
dog, Toby, a very bouncy Springer Spaniel!
This is her twenty-second book
for children. She has visited many schools
in Bucks, Beds, Northants and further afield, including Texas, talking about
her work and running writing workshops for children. For many
years she
has been an Adult Education Tutor in Creative Writing, working mainly in the
adjacent counties.
Griselda and her husband, Jim,
now live at Leighton Buzzard but she also
lived for many years in Woburn Sands, Bucks.
112 Oakwood Drive, St Albans Herts AL4 0XA
Telephone 840696
Email nicholas@carter112freeserve.co.uk