It’s a Festival of Books!
The Vancouver Island Children’s Book Festival is this Saturday at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, and this year they’re offering free sessions for the under-6 crowd. They can enjoy a Mother Goose Rhyme-Time session, a puppet show called The Gingerbread Boy, as well as spend some time reading with (perhaps even TO) their parents in the Parent-Child Reading Room.
For the older kids, the day is organized into three sessions and you can choose from 9 authors and storytellers who will be reading and performing their works, as well as talking about how they create their stories.
Tickets are just $10 per child, with a maximum of $25 per family – adults are free, but must be accompanied by a child (to make sure the adults don’t get into trouble). Be sure to bring a picnic lunch as there’s no cafeteria service that day. You can also enjoy lots of free entertainment and activities during the lunch hour.
