The Festival programme features many events designed specifically to be of interest to writers, teachers and arts practitioners – as well as of general adult interest. Some events that will be of particular interest are:

• Helen List: Reading landscapes in the picture book: a quiet contemplation or a flow of movement
• Symposium 1: The Children’s Trilogy: recession, technology and the killer slush pile
• Symposium 2: ‘When the world is puddle-wonderful’: sustaining the links between poetry and childhood
• Professor Diana Donald: ‘My strongest motive was to lead the minds of youth’: Thomas Bewick’s wood engravings and their child audience
• Professor Ian Rogerson: Aesop’s fables in pictures
• Dr David Huxley: A passive visual taking-on of mass bad art geared to a very low mental age? Comics in the Twentieth Century
• Dr Andrew Biswell: The World of Edward Gorey
• Paul Johnson: Paper+Scissors=Pop-up: a practical workshop
• John Lawrence on the practice of children’s book illustrations

Continuing Professional Development Day
Hosted by the Department of English and Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), this full-day programme of masterclass workshops, critical seminars and illustrated talks is led by MMU tutors – among them internationally distinguished children’s authors and researchers, including Sherry Ashworth, Paul Magrs, Jacqueline Roy – and guest writer Liz Kessler.

When:	Thursday 1st July 2010, 10am-6pm
Price:	£70
Note:	Includes Symposium 1 and 2, refreshments and lunch
Venue:	Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building

Click here for the full Continuing Professional Development Day programme.

If you have any queries, please contact James Draper on mcbf@mmu.ac.uk or +44 (0) 161 247 1787.