Dr Book Festival surgeries

With the summer holidays coming to an end why not spring into the new term with fun new authors and books to explore and enjoy! Our enormously popular Dr Book service is hosting clinics across the festivals, prescribing books packed with belly laughs and pulse-quickening adventures.

We’ll be at the BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals site on Lauriston Place on Thursday 11^th August (2pm – 4pm) helping young readers discover books and authors they will #lovetoread

We’re also visiting our friends at Edinburgh International Book Festival in Charlotte Square for the WHOLE DAY on the Friday 19^th August. We will also be in attendance at the Schools Gala day on the 30^th August and will be on hand to treat any reading emergencies caused by the return to school and the end of the Summer Reading Challenge!

The ‘Tedinburgh’ Book Festival sleepover

Lots of young readers brought their special soft toys along to Edinburgh International Book Festival on Friday for our very first teddy bear sleepover. Author Linda Strachan brought Hamish McHaggis!

After some songs and stories the children tucked their toys up and left them to settle down for the night.

Or so they thought. Almost as soon as Linda had left the room the teddies were getting up to all kinds of mischief…

They enjoyed Linda’s story so much they thought they’d sneak a look at her web site.

Snip introduced his new friends to his favourite titles at the bookshop.

Look! Doctor Book! Everyone queued nicely for a reading prescription.

“Antony Beevor? Any relation?”

All this was hungry work. Might there be some food at the authors’ yurt?

Bingo!

“This is my first trip to the book festival. How about you?”.

And off to bed, although Snip’s snoring made Big Ted wish he’d brought his earplugs.

You can see more of the teddies’ adventures on Flickr.

 

 

Bookfest!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… well, at least one of the most wonderful times of the year for book lovers! Once again, there is a cracking line-up with lots of our favourite authors coming to share in the festival spirit.

We are such good buddies with the folk at the book festival that we just couldn’t resist getting involved yet again.  We were delighted to play host the festival’s programme launch, right here in Central Library back in June.

Once more, that beloved dispenser of poetry and prose,  Doctor Book, will be in residence to help little ones with all of their literary diagnostic needs. 

So do yourselves a favour and do not miss out on this amazing bounty of events, happening right here under your nose, many of which are (your favourite price) FREE!