Monaghan County Library Children's Book Festival 2021

Comhairle Chontae Mhuineachaín Monaghan County Council

Children’s Children’s Book Festival Festival 2021 2021 Book

Schools

Programme Programme Welcome

Welcome to Monaghan County Libraries Children’s Book Festival 2021. As always, we have a fantastic line up of authors, illustrators & stories for you to explore. Last year we ventured into the world of Live Streaming for the first time. We received some fantastic feedback to say it was much easier for schools to take part without having to worry about the normal logistics that go along with hiring buses and taking children to library venues. We had intended running a hybrid festival this year which would give schools the choice to visit the library or stream online but alas it seems Covid is going nowhere fast and so the only choice we have is to go fully digital again this year. We are using the same platform, Crowdcast, which we hope you are all familiar with at this stage. If not, full instructions on how to access the event will be provided on booking.

How to book

All of our events are FREE to join however to ensure there are no unexpected guests during our sessions we will be password protecting each event. If you would like to book any or all of the events please provide us with the follow details: • Your Name: • School Name: • Class Group: • Number of Children: Send to libraryactivities@monaghancoco.ie

Garry Parsons

am Friday 1st October@ 11:30 ss Suitable for 1st – 3rd Cla winning illustrator Garry Parsons is an award luding the best selling of books for children inc Dinosaur that Pooped picture book series “The Dougie Poynter. …” by Tom Fletcher and ve accompanied the Garry ’s illustrations ha s writers of children’s words of many prestigiou Gray, Jeanne Willis, literature including Kes y, Julia Jarman, Julia Ian Whybrow, Peter Bentl readers Josh Lacey Donaldson and for older series and Lucy and in “The Dragonsitter” ce adventure series Stephen Hawking in the spa Universe”.

“George’s Secret Key to the eractive and involve These sessions are fun, int his studio. lots of live drawing from

Ian Beck

Tuesday 5th October @ 11 :30am Suitable for Junior – 1st Class Ian Beck is the author an d illustrator of over 100 books for children an d more than a million copies of his books have been sold worldwide.

He ’s illustrated picture books for the ver y young, and more rec ently written books for middle grade and old er students. Titles include The teddy robbe r, Five little ducks, Tm trueheart, The hidden kin gdom and Pastworld.

In fact, if you have a look in your school librar y we ’re sure you’ll find on e of Ian’s books in there somewhere!

In addition to his nume rous children’s books, he is also known for his cover illustration on Elton John’s Goodbye Yel low Brick Road album.

During his visit Ian will be reading & talking about his books for young er readers.

David Solomon s

Friday 8th October @ 11 :30am Suitable for 3rd – 6th Cla ss David Solomons was born on the doomed planet Kry p– no, wait, that’s someone else. He was born and gre w up in the suburbs of Gla sgow, where he spent mo st of his time playing with his Star Wars figures and try ing to make toy lightsabers jum p into his hand using on ly the power of the Force and a rubber-band. His first novel for children, My Bro ther is a Superhero, won the Waterstones Children’s Pri ze 2016 and the British Bo ok Industry Award ’s Children ’s Book of the Year 2016 . He went on to write many mo re such as My Gym Teache r is an Alien Overlord and My Cousin is a Time Travel ler.

Rights in the books ha ve to date been sold to 15 territories, all of them on planet Earth. So far.

Join us for what promises to be an entertaining cha t with David as we discuss his books to date and an swer any questions the children may have.

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Monda & Senior Infants Suitable for Junior

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Rachel Bright

@ 11:30am Wednesday 13th October ond Class Suitable for Junior to Sec chel Bright is joining We are so delighted that Ra Her picture book hits us for this year’s festival. , The Squirrels who include The Lion Inside o Wanted More and Squabbled, The Whale Wh s now been adapted Love Monster, which ha ies for CBeebies. into an irresistible TV ser n with a Story. This Rachel will open her sessio drawing session of will be followed by a guided ildren will also do an one of her characters. Ch d come up with ideas imagination exercises an Rachel will draw. If for a new character which n be lucy enough to there’s time we might eve session finishes. hear a final story before the this one!

You won’t want to miss

Nicola Davies

Friday 15th October @ 11 :30am Suitable for 2nd – 6th Cla ss Nicola Davies is an Englis h zoologist and writer. Som e of you may remember her as she was one of the ori gin al presenters of the BBC chi ldren’s wildlife programm e Th e Really Wild Show. More rec ently, she has made her na me as a children’s author.

Nicola Davies is passiona te about conservation an d the natural world and her bo oks reflect her deep know led ge.

Nicola has written over 80 books with Nature at the ir heart. These range fro m picture books to Child ren ’s fiction and Non-Fiction.

There are so many wond erf ul titles to choose from, bu t one of our favourites is ‘The Variety of Life’ Nicola will be chatting to us about her passion for animal conservation and how she portrays this in her work. She will also be happy to answer an y burning nature question s the children may have.

Sam Copeland

Tuesday 19th October @ 11:30am Suitable for ages 3rd – 6th Class Join Waterstones’ prize shortlisted and bestselli ng children’s author Sam Copeland as he introd uces his new novel – Uma an d the Answer to Absolute ly Everything – in a hilariou s and engaging event ab out questions, knowledge an d the limits of the intern et.

Hear all about Uma Gn udersonn and her adven tures with best friend Alan Ala n, including encounters with evil inventors, all knowing AI technology and severa l drunk alpacas. Then, test your knowledge wit h a hilarious true or false quiz filled with weird and wonderful facts that can be found online.

The event will be full of laughs and silliness, while also encouraging children to explore the questions tha t can’t be answered by Go ogle and Alexa – those wh ich they must find answers to themselves. The session will be all about questions an d what google can tell us, and what is true and what is not, and what google CA N’T tell us.

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Friday 22nd @ 11:30am

The Big book quiz is back! Last year Ms. Daly’s class in Urbleshanny N.S won €250 to spend on new books for their school. They were closely followed by Lisdoonan N.S and St. Enda’s N.S, Scotshouse who each won €100 worth of new books.

This year it could be you!

The quiz will take place online through MyQuiz.org.

Questions will be in multiple choice format and bonus points are awarded for Fastest Finger First – this can be the difference between winning & losing….

Your whole classroom can work together as a Team to win the Prize.

To Register for the Quiz Access Code please email: libraryactivities@monaghancoco.ie

by Thursday 21st October.

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School Book Book School

PODCAST Monaghan County Libraries have recently acquired a mobile podcasting studio which we would love to bring out to Primary schools. We are hoping to put together a Podcast series featuring children telling us all about their favourite books, stories or Poems.

We could also include a report on the school or the history of your area if you like. This could tie in with the curriculum in terms of Oral Language, Reading & Non-fiction Writing.

If you would like to take part please contact Karen Mc Cague at kmccague@monaghancoco.ie or 047 74702.

Comhairle Chontae Mhuineachaín Monaghan County Council