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Storylines Festival Family Days coming up

The annual Storylines Festival, where popular children’s authors, illustrators and storytellers share the magic of stories, is taking place around the country later this month.

Dyslexic wombat-tamer and Australian Children’s Laureate Jackie French (Diary of a Wombat, Gorilla Grab) and adventure fiction writer Gary Crew (Lost Diamonds of Killiecrankie, the Sam Silverthorn books) join a stellar line-up of 70 local authors, illustrators and storytellers in the upcoming Storylines Festival of New Zealand Children’s Writers and Illustrators beg held from August 23-31.

Admission is free for the Family Days across the country. They include Christchurch Family Day, Upper Riccarton Library, Sunday, August 24, 10am-3pm;
Wellington Family Day, Michael Fowler Centre, Sunday, August 24, 10am-3pm;
South Auckland Family Day, Vodafone Events Centre, Saturday, August 30, 10am-3pm;
Auckland Family Day, Aotea Centre, Sunday, August 31, 10am – 3.00pm

For more information on the festival and further locations visit www.storylines.org.nz

 

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