a world premiere at Hoo’s Kids Book Fest, starring James Mayhew and me!

 

After a week of frantic last-minute preparations, hysterical rehearsals, nerves and excitement…
with all hands on deck to design and build our so-beautiful theatre set…

 

                

 

Sunday morning arrived at last, looking like this:

 

 

With the band tuning up,

 

 

the guinea pig school party rustling their sweetie wrappers,

 

 

and the performers hidden away,

 

 

the REAL audience arrived –

 

 

and the show began!

Songs, high drama and thrills, cheesy jokes (the children shrieked with laughter – the cheesier the better) and a strawberry-bonbon-fueled near-riot.

Next stop Hay, Bath…
New York, Milan…

The Hoo’s Kids Book Fest truly had a magical, charmed feel about it. The rambling walled gardens looked exquisite. Hundreds of families were enjoying their day together, and the biggest shiniest names in the children’s book world pottered about, chatting, eating cake, entertaining their fans. The organisers and helpers – with seemingly effortless good grace – made sure everything ran like clockwork.

The teacups gleamed in the sunshine…

 

 

and even a four-legged member of the audience loyally watched on during her owner’s event.

 

 

This morning I think I am not the only person who feels ‘light as a bubble high up in the air…’