School groups and those not in mainstream education are welcome at all Festival events and tickets can be purchased via the MMU shop @ the concessionary rate of £3 per ticket.

Thanks to funding from Greater Manchester Aimhigher and MMU’s Widening Participation Strategy, we are also able to offer a large but limited number of free places to qualifying schools. These are for events running on Thursday and Friday.

To find out if you are eligible for free places, please email mcbf@mmu.ac.uk, and we will get back to you asap. (Please state your school, postcode, event and number of seats required.) Or telephone Kaye Tew on 0161 247 1966.

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Pre-festival school events in June:
In addition to the events listed below, we can also offer some of our regular ACWE writers and events that have featured in our Aimhigher programme this year for pre-festival school events throughout June.

Click here for more details.

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Thursday and Friday events available for booking by school groups are listed below.   (Suggested ages are intended only as a guide.)

Thursday

• Meet the Author: Michael Rosen (AM ) (age 8-11) – AM
• Adventures in the Alphabet: Vicki Wheeler (age 7-11) – AM
• Going on a Bear Hunt: Michael Rosen (age 5-8) - PM
• Exploring Comics and Graphic Novels: Vicki Wheeler (age 11-14) – PM
• Meet the Authors: Gillian Clarke and Carol Ann Duffy (Y7,8,9 – age 12-14) – PM

Friday

• Meet the Authors: John Agard and Grace Nichols (Y6,7,8 – age 11-13) – PM
• The Princess’ Blankets – Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson (Y5,6) – PM
• Ingenious – screening with introduction by writer Jeanette Winterson (age 6-12) – after school (4.30pm-6pm)

Creative writing workshops run by MMU trainee teachers and writing students will run immediately after the first Michael Rosen event on Thursday and these will be offered via email to people who have booked tickets for the performance. You will hear from us early June, when we know our availability.

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School and Library Festival events
A number of author events are taking place in Manchester schools and libraries on the Thursday and Friday. These are all by invitation only but are listed here for information.

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Schools outreach at MMU

A number of MMU departments and Faculties have been involved in offering events for the Manchester Children’s Book Festival. As well as the Department of English and the Faculty of Art & Design, these include subject areas as diverse as Maths, Modern Foreign Languages, Computing, Microbiology, Library and Information Management and Teacher Training. Many of these staff run their own outreach programmes and many have also organised schools outreach events in some way connected to the Festival.

Click here for a list of individual contacts and details of various schools outreach events.

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