Watch again! Vashti Hardy at Virtual BookTastic 2020
Award winning author of Bright Storm and Wild Spark, Vashti Hardy will be joined our Virtual Book Tastic festival on Saturday 23rd May Vashti’s breathtaking middle grade fantasies are published across the world in several languages. Wildspark won the Blue Peter Book Award ‘Best Story’ in 2020 and the FCBG Children’s Book Awards and Brightstorm […]
Watch again! David Litchfield
We are so thrilled to have David Litchfield at our Virtual BookTastic BookFest ! David has written/ illustrated the picture books ‘The Bear & The Piano’ ‘Grandad’s Secret Giant’ and ‘The Bear, The Piano, The Dog & The Fiddle’. The Bear & The Piano was read by Rick Wakeman for CBeebies Bedtime Story in December […]
Kiran Millwood-Hargrave Sunday 24 May at 3.00pm
Join us at 3:00pm on Sunday 24th May as we talk with bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave, about her best-selling book for adults The Mercies. Kiran is also the author of award-winning book ‘The Girl of Ink & Stars’, ‘The Way Past Winter’, and ‘The Deathless Girls’. You can find out more about her at […]
Harriet Muncaster – Sunday 24 May at 1.30pm
Harriet Muncaster is the author and illustrator of the Isadora Moon stories, a young reader series about the magical adventures of a little vampire fairy. will be joining our Virtual Book Tastic festiva! Don’t forget to subscribe to BookTastic YouTube to join in! So far Isadora Moon is available in twenty-seven different languages, including Spanish, Italian, Romanian and Korean, […]
Wow what a BookTastic Day!
It was an honour & a joy to welcome Jonny Duddle. A.F Harrold, Ross Montgomery, David Roberts and our very own Patron David Litchfield to BoookTastic Children’s Book Festival yesterday. You were magnificent and have inspired lots of children & adults.. THANK YOU
Introducing…
We’re fine-tuning the pixels on the ticketing website, tweaking the programmes and flyers, and basically trying desperately not to get completely over-excited about the imminent launch of this year’s Book Festival! To occupy our twitching hands, we’ve decided to introduce you to some of the amazing authors and illustrators who will be joining us on […]
It’s BACK baby…
That’s right, BookTastic’s Children’s Book Festival returns in 2015! Following the overwhelming success of last year’s bookfest we’ve been asked to run the event again this year, this time with a bigger venue and bigger fun! We’re delighted to welcome back the amazing authors and creatives who made last year such a success, and are […]
Book Club In The Park…
Has a nice ring to it, right? Books, fresh air, trees, green stuff… Perfect combination. And yes, that’s right, it’s coming to a Pavilion near you! Bedford’s latest yummy ‘jewel in the crown’ of Bedford Park is not content with bringing warming coffee, delicious snacks and chef-designed menus that would be at home in the […]
Got books..?
Well. 2014 was the year that BookTastic all went a little, well, booktastic! A move to a new home at Bedford’s fabulous BedPop led to requests for more frequent sessions, invitations to participate in other events across the county and, of course, Bedford’s very first children’s book festival! As 2014 comes to a close we’re slowing down as […]
The Book Festival
It feels sometimes these days, like the only limit to events that you can get off the ground in Bedford is your imagination. The past few years have seen empty shop and film festivals, art projects and busking events, not to mention numerous pop-ups appearing all over the town. So when we first came up […]