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Seven Kings Library will be offering a variety of book and story themed crafts throughout the Fabula Reading Challenge this summer.

Every Tuesday. Crafts are suitable for children aged 4+
FREE, spaces limited, please book in advance at the welcome desk or over the phone.

Check out their schedule:

  • 30 July
    2:30pm- 3:30 pm
    Come and make your own Fantastic Mr Fox mask

  • 6 August
    2:30pm-3:30pm
    Come and learn about flags of countries in Southeast Asia
  • 13 August
    2:30pm -3:30 pm
    Make your own Fire breathing dragon

  • 20 August
    2:30pm -3:30pm
    Make your own rocket

  • 27 August
    2.30pm-3.30pm
    Make your own African mask

Make a zine with Patchlarks! Create a brilliantly expressive mini book – called a ‘zine’. Drawings, collages and words collide in this joyfully creative craft session with a narrative flare. Aimed at all humans aged 6+.

Spaces limited, booking required.

Costs
Child – £2.00
Parent/Guardian – Free

Patchlarks creates immersive storytelling adventures for children. Their adventures combine interactive storytelling, imaginative games, illustrative maps and inventive workshops to get children fizzing with creative curiosity.

www.patchlarks.co.uk

Dive into a world of cunning characters, exciting antics, and animal magic in this storytelling show. Oliver Wallace brings his rambunctious style to fairytales and folktales for all ages.

Patchlarks creates immersive storytelling adventures for children. Their adventures combine interactive storytelling, imaginative games, illustrative maps and inventive workshops to get children fizzing with creative curiosity.

www.patchlarks.co.uk

Free, drop in, no need to book

Join us for the Fabula Festival’s Families Take-Over Day! Redbridge Central Library will be bursting at the seams – with a whole day of free* family events in store.   

There’ll be author visits, special story times and loads of crafts and fun activities. Come along, enjoy the fun – and don’t forget to sign up to the Fabula Reading Challenge! 

*a small fee for face painting will apply

See list of what’s on here

Join children’s book illustrator Julia Groves for storytelling and a fun collage activity all about honey bees. We will read Julia’s book Polly Bee Makes Honey and find out where bees live and how they make honey!

Julia Groves is an illustrator and a graduate of the MA in Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art. She loves to work with cut-paper and printmaking and enjoys the design process and creating typography for her books. Julia has had six books published with Child’s Play UK/US and recently the Follow my Food series with Scallywag Press. Her books are mostly all about animals!

For more information and to book a space, click here

Join author and illustrator Marjoke Henrichs for a fun storytelling and drawalong event based on her new book Detective Catz and the Missing Nut.  

You might even get the chance to become a detective yourself! Marjoke Henrichs graduated from the MA Children’s Book Illustration course at Cambridge School of Art in 2019. She is also a theatre designer and a painter. She was born in the Netherlands and now lives in Suffolk.

For more information and to book a space, click here

Join Sara Stanley, author and children’s story player for a fun retelling of family stories in your cardboard box boats.

Listen to the story of her new picture book, One Button and the Sea, and create your own story with paper planes. Sara Stanley is an Early Years Consultant specialising in philosophical storyplay in the UK and South Africa. Having spent time working with displaced families in Northern France she now works as a bookseller in Norfolk. One Button And The Sea is her first picture book.

For more information and to book a space, click here

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