Part of Derby Book Festival

Bringing Books to Life

Sat 4 Jun

Derby Market Place

About the Event

Skididdle on to Derby Market Place to catch a glimps of your favourite books and join the brain-boggling fun!

Celebrate Roald Dahl’s 100th birthday year by doing his favourite things – wear something yellow, wear something backwards, use the BFG’s favourite language, swap a Roald Dahl book, bring your own revolting rhyme, give someone a treat, create a mural – and so much more!

But whatever you do, don’t be forgetting to dress up as your favourite book character and have a chance of winning a book token!

Special events and activities include

• Stories in the Yurt at 10.15am, 11.45am, 1.30pm and 3pm
• The Quite Remarkable Bookcase performance at 10.45am and 1pm
• Cartoon drawing for families at 1pm
• Off the page with Oddsocks performance at 2pm.
• Interactive Street Theatre with Willy Wonka
• The Summer Reading Challenge and the Book Doctor with Derby City Libraries
• Have a go at creating your favourite book character in Pavement Art
• Have fun producing our Magnificent Mural
• Find out about The Book Bus which provides books to children overseas
• Bring along a book and swap it
• The Bard on the Bus with Derby Shakespeare Company on a Trent Barton bus
• Find out about the Book Trust
• Buy a book from our Charity Book Stalls
• and relax in the BFG’s Pop up Café.