Find out what Anthony Browne has been doing in his role as Children's Laureate
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The Children's Laureate: coming soon to a festival near you!
Posted Tuesday June 29th 2010
by Katherine WoodfineAnthony has designed the cover artwork for this year's Bath Festival of Children's Literature programme! Download a programme to check out Anthony's artwork here - and find out how to enter a special Shape Game competition.
The festival runs from Friday 24 September - Sunday 3 October: Anthony will be discussing his careeer in illustration and his role as Children's Laureate at a special Opening Night Gala event taking place on Friday 24 September. You can also catch Anthony in Bath at a family event on Saturday 25 September.
Anthony will also be appearing at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival: on Thursday 26 August he will be leading an inspirational event on picture books, sharing the importance of visual literacy with an audience of teachers. On Friday 27 August you can also catch him in conversation with the illustrator David Roberts, offering an insight into his artistic techniques and influences in an event chaired by fellow illustrator Catherine Rayner.
Meanwhile, if you're based in London, you can also catch Anthony at this year's Shoreditch Festival - as part of a day of free events for families in Shoreditch Park. Anthony will be appearing in…
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Me and You ... and tea and cakes
Posted Thursday June 24th 2010
by Kelly TapperWe’re delighted to welcome Kelly Tapper, Press Officer at Random House Children's Books, as a special guest blogger.
After months of preparation, Random House Children’s Books were excited to take Anthony on tour to celebrate the publication of his first new picture book as Children’s Laureate – Me and You. Unlike the Scottish Book Trust tour that Anthony had undertaken just a couple of weeks earlier, our trip was filled with tea and cakes rather than cups of coffee!
On Monday 24 May, Anthony kicked off the tour with a visit to Birmingham for the Birmingham Young Readers Festival. We set off early for our trains, only to discover that an electrical fault on the line meant all trains out of Euston were cancelled – what a nightmare! I rushed over to Marylebone to catch a cross-country service to Birmingham Moor Street, which meant we arrived just in the nick of time for our first event. An eventful start for the first day of the tour, but Anthony was always the professional, and had the children engaged and excited from the first word. Our favourite question of the session had to be: “how much money do you have in your…
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Scottish Friendly Children's Book Tour
Posted Monday June 21st 2010
by Katherine WoodfineLast month, Scottish Book Trust took Anthony out on tour across Scotland, from Edinburgh to Aberdeenshire. Visit the Scottish Book Trust blog to read Anthony's reflections on the tour, and some of the sights he saw along the way!
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Play the Shape Game is coming soon!
Posted Tuesday June 15th 2010
by Katherine WoodfineMomentum is beginning to gather around one of Anthony’s most exciting projects as Children’s Laureate, which is all about the Shape Game.
Anthony has been playing the Shape Game – his imaginative drawing game involving one player drawing a shape at random, and the next then turning it into something recognisable – throughout his time as the Children’s Laureate, as a great way of helping us all to be creative. Now he has invited over 40 writers, artists, illustrators and celebrities to join in too, transforming an original shape he has drawn to create their own artworks.
Over the last few months, we and Anthony have been very busy, working closely with our colleagues at Waterstone’s, Walker Books and Rainbow Trust – contacting celebrities, exclaiming over the beautiful artworks contributed, and getting together to plan the launch of the Play the Shape Game book, which will take place on Monday 26 July at Waterstone’s Piccadilly, London. On the same day, we’ll also be launching an online auction of the artworks: all profits from the book and proceeds from the auction will be donated to Rainbow Trust, a charity which provides vital support to families who have a… -
Celebrating Me and You
Posted Monday May 24th 2010
by Katherine WoodfineAnthony kicks off a week of events to celebrate the publication of his new picture book Me and You with an event for young readers at Birmingham Central Libraries today.
Tuesday will take Anthony to Manchester, where he will be signing books at Waterstone’s bookshop in the Arndale Centre, before heading to Stockport where he will be appearing at Stockport Art Gallery as part of the Stockport Literary Festival.
Wednesday will see him travel to London for a special exhibition of artwork at the Illustration Cupboard, and the week will conclude with a signing at the Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop, London on Thursday, an event for schools at Waterstone’s Canterbury on Friday, and finally a signing at Tales on Moon Lane bookshop in London on Saturday.
Find more information about Anthony’s events this week; read more about Me and You; and follow @Booktrust on Twitter to be in with the chance to win a signed copy of Anthony’s newest book!
