Sunday, 30 October 2011

A cast of Hallowe’en horrors

After the haunting of Hallowe’en night, comes the zombies, fiends, monsters and fright at Lennoxlove Book Festival…all in a creaking ancient house full of its own Scottish ghosts…come and join us if you think you’re brave enough. Children welcome to come in fancy dress.

Haunted with Eleanor Updale

Award-winning author Eleanor Updale will be at Lennoxlove to read from and talk about her tale of a very modern ghost, who haunts his victim through a computer. Ages 9+.



Invisible Fiends, Barry Hutchison

Barry Hutchison’s creepy, deliciously nightmarish Invisible Fiends are guaranteed to make your blood run cold. Ages 9-13.

Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson

Knobbly knees and turned out toes and a poisonous wart at the end of his nose. Julia Donaldson and her very famous monster are back for lots of Gruffalo fun. Ages 5+.

You can draw the Horrible Histories with Martin Brown

Learn to draw all the nasty bits of history in a witty cartoon style. See how Martin Brown, illustrator of the Horrible Histories series, creates his illustrations the ‘horrible’ way and join in with your own gory drawings. Ages 7+.



Fleshless Skulls and Bulging Eyes, Vivian Collins, Ross Young

Does Fiddleduster Squint win the prize as the creepiest zombie of all? Help create a truly scary graphic novel based on The Tales from the Five Kingdoms! Ages 9+.

The Scariest Thing of all with Debi Gliori

Calling all active imaginations to come and help Debi Gliori draw some Gobblers, Hissters and Giant Woodtrolls and discover how Pip met the Scariest Thing of All ... and survived to tell the tale. Age 4-7.

And for the adults…
Allan Little, Dictators I Have Known

Fresh from elections in Tunisia, , Allan will offer his tales of encounters with Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Robert Mugabe, Nicolae Ceausescu, Charles Taylor, Mobutu Sese Seko and Radovan Karadzic and his daughter, Sonja. A line-up of real life monsters…

 Visit the Lennoxlove Box Office website for full programme details.

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