Festival Ready To Be A Roaring Success

Ryedale Book Festival is back again this 21 – 22 September with a fiery dragon-themed set of activities for children to enjoy as well as meeting Cressida Cowell and will watch the film How To Train Your Dragon. Sarah Tyson, Ryedale Book Festival Director, said: “When Cressida Cowell accepted our invitation we just had to go with a dragon theme this year. There are so many fantastic dragon books to choose from we were spoiled for choice but I am delighted that our writing and drawing competition has Jackie Morris’s support because her beautiful illustrations in Tell Me a Dragon are so inspiring.”
This will surely fire up children’s imaginations and the event will also include a stellar line up of award-winning artists including a former Home Secretary, entertaining wine expert and a historian which has quality written all over it.
The older readers and adults get to indulge in a beautiful music memoir from Alan Johnson, he will share with the audience a Desert Island Disc style musical journey through his life at The Milton Rooms on the 21 September 2018.
On Saturday, lovers of fiction get to enjoy a bunch of literary treats, from Romance author Jane Hovering and crime with Stephen Booth and lastly a discussion on how to survive attacks on social media so there is something there for everyone.
“Ryedale Book Festival just keeps growing in popularity throughout the year. We always ask our audiences what they would like to see at a future festival and history, crime and music were top of the wish list,” added Sarah. “Also, as this year is such an important landmark for women we thought it deserved acknowledgment by way of considering a contemporary issue for feminists through the work of two writers whose characters are victims of social media abuse.”
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