Children's Book Festival 2014

Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Sunday 23 March
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Location

The Wheeler Centre and State Library Victoria

Corner Swanston and Little Lonsdale Streets Melbourne Victoria 3000

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Calling all children!

Find your way through the Sticky Maze and onto the lawn of the State Library on Sunday 23rd March for this year’s Children’s Book Festival! There will be characters springing to life from the pages of famous books, giant word games, illustration workshops and loads more.

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A ton of your favourite writers and illustrators are going to be there too – John Marsden talks about how to make words do what you want them to do, Jackie French knows everything there is to know about digging out secrets, and Sally Rippin will spill the beans about her famous characters, Billie B Brown and best friend Jack!

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774 ABC Melbourne’s Libbi Gorr will be broadcasting live at the Festival from 10am – and we’re calling all superheroes, because the 774 fancy dress competition is back! Show off your finest, most dazzling get up at 11am for the chance to win fabulous bookish prizes.

Meeting Sally Rippin in the Workshop Zone at Children's Book Festival 2014.
Meeting Sally Rippin in the Workshop Zone at Children's Book Festival 2014.

If you fancy having a go at book-writing yourself, head to the publishing house, where you can design one from scratch. Listen to stories all day long in our storytelling pavilion, or dive in and help build the biggest book ever. There will be music too, and guest stars so exciting you’d explode if we told you who they were. Seriously.

So circle Sunday 23rd March with a red pen. The Festival is free, and everyone is welcome. Come down and join us for the book party.

Family Day is on Sunday, but the Festival also has two days of activities for school groups on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st March.

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Here’s how the day unfolded on social media.

[View the story "Children's Book Festival 2014" on Storify]

Find more photos on Instagram by searching the hashtag #kidsbookfest.