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Why not run a Readathon ahead of the Summer Party!
For inspiration, here’s some information on our guest authors!
Hannah Gold is a multi-award-winning and bestselling author known for writing heartwarming adventure stories. Her books – including The Last Bear, The Lost Whale, Finding Bear, Turtle Moon and The Lone Husky – have won several major awards including the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. She currently lives in Lincolnshire with her tortoise and her husband.@HGold_author
Athena Kugblenu is a stand-up comedian and writer. She has written for CBBC’s Horrible Histories series, CBBC’s Odd Squad, CBeebies JoJo and Gran Gran, The Amelia Gething Complex and Swashbuckle as well as The Russell Howard Hour, Dara Ó Briain’s Timewasters, and The Lenny Henry Show among many other credits. She is the co-host of Bust or Trust?, a podcast for curious kids.
A.F. Harrold is an English poet and children’s author. Some of the things he makes (books, poems, faces) are funny, some are strange, some are sad, and many of them involve the privilege of working with amazing illustrators. He is the owner of many books, a handful of hats, a few good ideas and one beard. He lives in Reading with a stand-up comedian and two cats. His latest title with Bloomsbury Education is Pocket Book of Pocket Poems, a laugh-out-loud collection of over 200 short poems.
RAMZEE (Ramsey Hassan) is an author-illustrator based in London. He has written comic books for 2000ad and Marvel and designs and runs his own comics and illustration workshops. He was nominated for a British Comics Award in 2016, won the Second Prize in the Faber Children’s FAB Prize in 2017, took part in the Vaults Festival New Writers Programme in 2019 and recently was chosen for the BBC’s London Voices Writer’s Room Programme. You can find him on Twitter @ramzeerawkz
Sarah McIntyre has been a Read for Good Patron since 2018. From leading a parade of Sea Wigs through Manchester Children’s Hospital to helping us bring the power of our sponsored read to the whole city of Liverpool, Sarah’s support is amazing.
Sarah said: “I get asked to support a lot of charities, but the one I’ve chosen to champion is Read for Good, because what they do is so important: bringing books to children in hospital. The Readathon is a great way to encourage empathy in children who support Read for Good, helping them imagine what it would be like to be in hospital, possibly for very long stays; how stories might inspire a child who’s poorly to imagine bigger and better things outside the walls of the ward.”
