Explore StoryMachine, for the young readers among us! From: International Literature Festival #Dublin @ilfdublin

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Tuesday 4 May 2021 Friendship & Kindness And plenty of hands-on activities for little ones! This week our spotlight is on StoryMachine, our exciting programme for families, children, and young adults. Join us from the 20 - 30 of May to start your family's day off with a dose of kindness, break records, make friends, and so much more. Read on to discover some of our StoryMachine highlights! Counting Kindness with Barroux In a StoryMachine exclusive, award-winning illustrator Barroux creates a new short film about kindness every day during ILFDublin. Keep an eye on our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages for a new video each day throughout our festival dates, 20th -30th May 2021.   Learn More Let's Get Busy! A hands-on daily series for budding writers, illustrators, and bookworms! Get busy every morning with the likes of Patricia Forde and Chris Haughton giving power to your pencil or inspiring authors and activists like Angie Thomas and Holly Bourne to empower your beliefs, this series encourages participation and creation, no matter what your age!  Let's Get Busy...Smashing Records! Highest Lego tower? Telling jokes? Join Jenny Pearson and see what records you can smash at home! Let's Get Busy...Creating Characters! Create a book cover featuring your very own climate-controlling Weatherling character! Let's Get Busy...Pocket of Poets! Three wonderful poets Joseph Coelho, Valerie Bloom and Matt Goodfellow talk about poetry, performance, best friends, and more! Let's Get Busy...With Rabbit & Bear! Join Julian Gough and Jim Field and discover why things are always better when they're shared with a friend! Learn More Past Secrets & Hidden Stories For fans of history, secrets, and mysteries! When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle is inspired by a true story. Joseph must make a terrible choice when he is left alone to guard a silverback gorilla’s cage in a deserted zoo. When the Blitz comes, will he have to shoot the animal rather than let it run wild? In The Valley of Lost Secrets Jimmy is evacuated from London to a small village in Wales and feels completely out of place. But when he finds a skull hidden in a tree, the valley becomes more frightening than the war. Book Now StoryMachine Podcast A five-part series exploring diverse aspects of childrens' literature. For those more interested in the mechanics of storytelling for young readers, check out the StoryMachine podcast series. Hear from experts like Dr. Sinéad Moriarty, David Almond, and Dr. Pádraic Whyte. Sign Up For Reminders Bookmarks New & Notable Updates Tolka is a new biannual literary journal of non-fiction: publishing essays, reportage, travel writing, auto-fiction, individual stories and the writing that flows in between. Issue One will be published later this month; pre-order now!   Dublin author Colum McCann talks about the great joy and immense grief in his latest novel, being creative during lockdown, and his insecurities about going bald. A decade ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri and her family became expats living in Rome, Italy, and during that time, she immersed herself in the unfamiliar culture. Share Tweet Forward International Literature Festival Dublin is a Dublin City Council initiative, kindly supported by The Arts Council and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. Copyright © 2021 International Literature Festival Dublin, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: International Literature Festival Dublin GEC Taylor's Lane, Dublin 8 Dublin, Co. Dublin D08 DDE9 Ireland Add us to your address book

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