The Cospicua Book Festival for Children, a new collaborative project by the National Book Council and Cospicua local council, is a one-day festival taking place tomorrow at the Cospicua waterfront which  will be dedicated to children and children’s literature.

A cultural programme has been prepared with reading activities, encounters with authors and fun activities.

The festival will open at 9.45am in the presence of Cospicua mayor Alison Zerafa and the chairman of the National Book Council, Mark Camilleri. There will be reading sessions with award-winning authors Clare Azzopardi and John Bonello. Other reading and literary activities have been prepared in collaboration with the National Literacy Agency.

The publishers participating in the festival are: Faraxa, Merlin Publishers, Wise Owl, Miller and Midsea Books.

Programme of activities:

9.45am: Official opening

10.30: Storytelling – John Bonello will be reading excerpts of his work to children and engaging them in the process by asking them to guess details of the plot. (ages seven to 12)

11am: Reading activity – Aqra Miegħi – set up in collaboration with the National Literacy Agency. (ages five to six) 

11.30: Storytelling: Clare Azzopardi will be reading excerpts from her book Il-Qtates ta’ max-Xatt (ages four to five)

Noon: Reading Activity – Aqra Miegħi

2pm: Meet the author – Kirsten Spiteri, author of The Wave and Far From Home, will be talking about his experience as a budding author and will also be reading excerpts from his two novels. The event is set up by Faraxa.