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leading children’s festival, Imagine, ghest-qualliity
fun for all those aged 0 – 11 and their grownups. Imagine Children’s Festival takes over the 17-acre cultural quarter on the fo
iinternational children s theatre, music performances, l literature events, comedy shows,, creativity workshops, family parties, hands-on activities and lots of free family for all those aged 0 – 11 and their
nternational children’’s theatre music performances, iterature events, comedy shows creativityworkshops, family parties, hands-on activities and lots of free family fun fo
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grownups. Imagine Children’s Festival takes over the 17-acre cultural quarter on the banks of the River Thames for its nineteenth ru
delve into this fantastic festival to present some of the highlights.
festival to presen t some of the highlights.
Literature, storytelling and children’s access to books have always been a prominent theme of the festival and this year is no exception with authors includingMichael Rosen and Robin Stevens. 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar and now
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banks of the River Thames for its nineteenth year, dedicating the February half termto familfamiliies enjoying and discovering all kinds of art and culture together. In our first featur looking at cultural education this month, we fantastic fe
es enjoying and discovering all kinds o art and culture together. In our first feature looking at cultural education thismonth,we delve into this fa
rom 12 – 23 February 2020 the UK’s leading children’s festival, Imagine,
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this timeless classic makes its way to Southbank Centre with the critically-acclaimed sta production of The Very Hungry Caterp
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This year children can also journey through J.K. Rowling’s much loved Harry Potter series with eurble Laffalot as they learn fun facts about the arry Potter books and witness some of the key ements of life at Hogwarts.
Waterstones Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell hosts CreatingMagical Ideas, a panel discussion with high profile guests about creativity and as they reveal the secrets behind t inspiration. Children’s authors Katie Ts
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Millwood Hargrave and Sharna Jackson explain the wonderful things that can happen when you find yourself in a story, in a conversation with writer and former CBeebies presenter Cerrie Burnell, who is also the current BookTrustWriter in Residence. One of the UK’s best loved broadcasters, The X Factor and BBC Radio 2 presenter Dermot O’Leary introduces his third children’s book Toto the Ninja Cat and the Superstar Catastrophe alongside illustrator Nick East.
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Culminating at the festival is the Imagine a Story project, returning for a second year. The nationwide creative writing proj
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re for alll at the Southbank Centre!
oject once again
invited more than 1,400 primary school children to take part in a giant ‘game of consequences’ led by author Sharna Jackson (High-RiseMystery, Sunday Times Children’s Book of theWeek) and
Day of Summer), wi illustrator Dapo Ade
th each class of schoolchildren ola (Look Up!; The Last Last
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