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Cardiff Children's Literature Festival 2016
When: Saturday 16th April 2016 -> Sunday 24th April 2016 - 10am - 8pm
Where: Cardiff city centre
The popular Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival will return from 16-24 April 2016 featuring a literary line-up of more than 50 events including multi-best-selling children’s favourite Jacqueline Wilson and a celebration to mark the centenary of Roald Dahl.
The festival’s biggest line-up yet also includes Bardd Plant Cymru (Welsh Children’s Poet Laureate) CBBC’s Sam and Mark and CBeebies’ Jess French and Cerrie Burnell, Kristina Stephenson and Kes Gray. Once again the festival hosts a week of free sessions for school children, which includes Tony Bradman on Shakespeare, Simon James, Jon Mayhew, and the Welsh Poets from Stomp Fach.
There are also events for adults, which include Writing for Children with Barry Cunningham the man who discovered J.K . Rowling.
All of these events, aimed at young people and grown-ups, aim to inspire, nurture and encourage a life-long love of reading and books.
The festival aims to create lifelong readers with tickets currently on sale via Ticketline UK (02920 230 13002920 230 130 or www.ticketlineuk.com ) and www.cardiff-events.com