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Children

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Here is our fabulous line-up for the Hay Fever 2013 programme. For regular updates on programme developments and Hay Festival activities, join our mailing list.

Children

Nature Detectives 1

Event HF95 Venue: Discovery Space

Using all the clues at your fingertips, come and discover the hidden wonders of the woodland with the vibrant Jan Watt. With environmentally-based games, quizzes and creative craft, you’ll be amazed what a story the forest has to tell.

7–11 years (unaccompanied with sign in/out)
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Party! 5

Event HF96 Venue: Imagine Space

Join in the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the world's bestselling picture book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. A brilliant party of games, songs, activities and interactive story telling with Justine de Mierre.

2–5 years

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Nature Detectives 2

Event HF97 Venue: Discovery Space

Using all the clues at your fingertips, come and discover the hidden wonders of the woodland with the vibrant Jan Watt. With environmentally-based games, quizzes and creative craft, you’ll be amazed what a story the forest has to tell.

7–11 years (unaccompanied with sign in/out)

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Party! 6

Event HF98 Venue: Imagine Space

Join in the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the world's bestselling picture book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. A brilliant party of games, songs, activities and interactive story telling with Justine de Mierre.

2–5 years

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Taller con Jenny Valentine

Event 8 Venue: Caja Segovia

Acompaña a la autora de Busco a Violet Park y ganadora del Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2008; Jenny compartirá sus experiencias literarias y hablará de los personajes de sus libros y de su proceso creativo.

Para niños de entre 13 y 16 años, en inglés
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Film-making in a Day (and a Half!)

Event HF1 Venue: Imagination Station

Adrenaline-fuelled, live action film-making on and around the festival site, culminating in a screening.

Ticket covers two sessions:
10am–5pm on Saturday 29 May
10am–2pm on Sunday 30 May

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12+ years
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Quentin Blake

Event HF2 Venue: Barclays Wealth Pavilion

Quentin Blake
The treasured illustrator and author on his life, work and latest projects.
 
Family event
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Roddy Doyle

Event HF3 Venue: The Summer House

Come and meet the author of The Rover Adventures, Her Mother’s Face and Wilderness.

8-12 years
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William Nicholson

Rich & Mad

Event HF114 Venue: Elmley Foundation Dream Stage

First love, first sex and everything in between.

‘...a tender, moving, unexpected and intelligent take on family life, sibling relationships, mid-life angst and, above all, first love...’ Observer
 
13+ years
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Lucy Cousins

Maisy

Event HF4 Venue: The Ritzy

A rare appearance from this beloved author-illustrator with live drawing and stories from a certain little mouse who loves adventures.
 
Family event
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