Canterbury Children's Literature Festival
Programme
This is the programme for our 2025 event. The festival will be back for 2026, so make sure you're signed up for emails
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Kerfuffle Bird with Helen Docherty
Friday 11th July
10am & 4pm, Chapters of Sturry
Age 3-6
School Visits with Lucy Strange
Friday 11th July
Years 4 & 5
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Fairytale Musical Mash-Up with Gareth P Jones
Friday 11th July
Multi School event
Years 3-6
Storytime at the Cathedral
Friday 11th July
Free event
All ages
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The Big Kids Bookish Quiz for Adults
Friday 11th July
Chapters of Sturry
Adult event
Saturday 12th July
Tiny Talk Signs & Stories
What the Crow Saw Below
9.30am, Fenwicks Event Space,
Saturday 12th July
10am, Chapters of Sturry,
Saturday 12th July
The Wildwood Trust, Herne
Saturday 12th July
Craft & Storytelling Sessions
Storytime with Mama G
10.30am, Waterstones,
Saturday 12th July
Time Travel Adventures
with Claire Linney
10.30am, The Old Synagogue
Saturday 12th July
Storytelling at the Cathedral
11am & 2pm, Canterbury Cathedral,
Saturday 12th July
Dinosaurs, Dancing Llamas & Poop! with Garry Parsons
11.30am, Canterbury Library,
Saturday 12th July
12.30pm, Waterstones,
Saturday 12th July
The Rock Family Band
with Robert Tregoning
A Kidsummer Night's Dream
12.30pm and 3.30pm, The Old Synagogue,
Saturday 12th July
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Improvised Poems from Saturn
with Jonathan Sellers
2pm, Chapters Bookshop,
Saturday 12th July
Our Living Soil
with Emma Rosen
2pm, The Wildwood Trust,
Saturday 12th July
Cloudboy with Greg Stobbs
2.30pm, Waterstones,
Saturday 12th July
The Storymakers
2.30pm, Canterbury Library,
Saturday 12th July
In Conversation with Nathanael Lessore
4.30pm, Waterstones,
Saturday 12th July
Why Aren't Children
Reading For Pleasure?
6.30pm, The Old Synagogue,
Saturday 12th July
Sunday 13th July
Tiny Talk Signs & Stories
9.30am, Fenwicks Event Space,
Sunday 13th July
Kip and the Squiggledoodle
10am, The Old Synagogue,
Sunday 13th July
Storytelling Board Game Session
10.30am - 12.30pm, The Long Rest,
Sunday 13th July
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The Bison & the Butterfly
Author & Illustrator Workshop
10.30am,
West Blean & Thornden Woods
Sunday 13th July
Craft & Storytelling Sessions
The Wildwood Trust, Herne
Storybuilding
with Sheena Dempsey
11.30am, Waterstones,
Sunday 13th July
How to Write a Mystery
with Eve Wersocki Morris
11.30am, The Old Synagogue,
Sunday 13th July
Create your own Comic
with James Turner
12pm, Chapters of Sturry,
Sunday 13th July
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Dragons!
with Katie & Kevin Tsang
Lifesize
Choose Your Own Adventure!
Storytelling
at the Cathedral
Mythological Drawalong
with Thiago de Moraes
1.30pm, Waterstones,
Sunday 13th July
1.30pm, The Old Synagogue,
Sunday 13th July
2pm, Canterbury Cathedral,
Sunday 13th July
2.30pm, Chapters of Sturry,
Sunday 13th July
In Conversation with Katherine Webber
3.30pm, The Old Synagogue,
Sunday 13th July