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What do you call two Nosy Crow authors and a knitted osprey called Monty at the Northern Children's Book Festival? Great to bump into the super talented Alastair Chisholm between school visits up here in snowy Newcastle! NCBF Nosy Crow Rupert Crew

Day 4 🎉 Hello to Jack Jackman & Dom Conlon joining in the NCBF fun today. As well as Sally Nicholls Guy Bass Alastair Chisholm & catherine bruton continuing their tours of the North East

Wow! View of snowy Alnmouth Bay greeting me on Day 2 of my #ncbf Northern Children’s Book Festival adventure! Snow on the Northumberland coast and a day of book buzz and writing workshops with budding bestsellers! Best job in the world! @ncbfest @nosycrow.bsky.social

Such an interesting session with Jack Jackman Gateshead Libraries Forum Books + the bound + The Accidental Bookshop WOW Winlaton West blowing us away with their knowledge

Thanks so much for inviting me! Winlaton West were amazing with their Shackleton knowledge! 🩵

My last day on the Northern Children's Book Festival, and it's been a blast. Thanks to all the kids, teachers, librarians and helpers – I had some wonderfully silly #SpacePirateBears fun! …AND I found another throne, at Appletree Gardens! 4/4! NCBF @BigPictureBooks

Day 5, final day of the first week. It’s flown by in a whirl of wonder thanks to our brilliant authors and illustrators. Last day for Sally Nicholls & Dom Conlon. See you all next week for more!

Friday with Gateshead Libraries Forum Books + the bound + The Accidental Bookshop with the amazing Dom Conlon inspiring poetry makers in schools.

Off we go 🚀 Powering into week 2 with Paul Cookson in Durham. Helen Rutter in Gateshead. Hiba Noor Khan in North Tyneside & James Nicol in Northumberland. Have a great day everyone Plenty photos to follow later County Durham Libraries Gateshead Libraries Northumberland Libraries North Tyneside Libraries

Excited to have Helen Rutter with us Gateshead Libraries Forum Books + the bound + The Accidental Bookshop

Week 2, day 2. Paul Cookson Helen Rutter James Nicol Hiba Noor Khan all beginning second days of school/ library visits. We also welcome David Almond OBE to Newcastle Libraries Shout out to our booksellers Forum Books + the bound + The Accidental Bookshop & DRAKE The Bookshop supporting the festival once again 🎉

Week 2, day 3. No hump day blues here. Tom Vaughan in Newcastle. Paul Cookson in Gateshead & Josh Lacey in North Tyneside. Have a great day everyone 👍 Newcastle Libraries North Tyneside Libraries Children's Team Gateshead Libraries

A throne fit for a King, we have Paul Cookson with Gateshead Libraries Forum Books + the bound + The Accidental Bookshop

Week 2, day 4. No winding down. Today we have Josh Lacey with County Durham Libraries Tom Vaughan with South Tyneside Libraries Alan Windram with Stockton-on-Tees Libraries Paul Cookson & Liz Million causing mayhem in Gateshead Children's Team Gateshead Libraries Busy day, and we wouldn’t have it any other way!

Thank you Paul Cookson You always capture the spirit of the festival. We’ve kept going through funding shortages, no funding, a pandemic, cuts to library services. We’ll keep going another 42 years because we truly believe this festival is like no other.

Here we go …….. Gateshead Libraries Forum Books + the bound + The Accidental Bookshop Paul Cookson Liz Million mega excited!!

Week 2, day 5. Final day. What a festival it’s been 🎉 Not over yet, Paul Cookson has his 5th day and Alan Windram rounding off what has been an outstanding programme with some of the finest writers and illustrators for children.

Last day of a fantastic book festival in the region. Excited to have Alan Windram Gateshead Libraries Forum Books + the bound + The Accidental Bookshop today!

The Northern Childrens Book Festival has been running for forty-two years, which is an extraordinarily impressive pedigree. Every year, the fortnight-long festival brings writers and illustrators to schools and libraries in the North-East

Thank you for being part of it Josh.