10:00- Are You Sitting Comfortably? 10:30 RBS Story Box, Free: Book in Advance All Ages Join us for a quick, magical dip into the world of words with our free morning events for children of all ages. It might be a story, a poem, songs and rhymes or a reading with one of our Festival authors. Appearing today: Tony Bradman. 11:30 Beth Cross RBS Imagination Lab, £4.50 Age 2 - 6 Make a book with a difference with storyteller Beth Cross, with pockets to store drawings or puppets of favourite stories and characters. This fully interactive family event offers the perfect way for you to help your child trace their journey through books and to truly engage with reading. Beth is an accomplished performer on both sides of the Atlantic and her infectious enthusiasm makes her a firm favourite with young audiences. Tickets admit 1 child and 1 accompanying adult. Adult supervision recommended.Mon 27 August15:00 What Not to Do. with Antonia Lloyd-Jones RBS Imagination Lab, £4.50 Age 6 - 10 Come and meet author and translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones for a lesson in What Not To Do with a variety of everyday objects. Translated by Antonia from the original Polish, the How Not To manuals are extremely funny, with brilliant pictures. Come and hear more and have the opportunity to create your own idea for the manual. 16:30 THE RBS EVENT David Walliams RBS Main Theatre, £4.50 Age 8 - 12 Comedian, actor, swimmer, talent show judge and children's author - is there no end to the accomplishments of David Walliams? Come and hear him talk about his brilliant new series, Gangsta Granny, featuring a ninety year old granny who prefers international crime to sucking on mints, wearing mauve and eating cabbage soup. You'll never look at your granny in the same way again! 16:30 Theresa Breslin & Berlie Doherty RBS Imagination Lab, £4.50 Age 10 - 14 A fantastic opportunity to meet two award-winning writers with their latest books. Theresa Breslin's new novel, Spy for the Queen of Scots, is a tale of mystery, plotting and intrigue. Berlie Doherty's latest, Treason, follows the fortunes of Will Montague, page boy to little Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII. Join Theresa and Berlie for an insight into nearly 100 years of Scottish and English history, a time of massive upheaval, religious conflict, love and betrayals. 18:30 Amy Plum RBS Imagination Lab, £4.50 Age 12 - 16 New supernatural stories are a real treat! In this event Amy Plum introduces you to Die For Me, the first book in her Revenants trilogy. Kate is sixteen and moves to Paris after her parents' death. She falls for Vincent, who she discovers is not the typical French teenager he appears. Love, mystery and horror combine in the city where dreams are sometimes the same as reality. Join Amy for talk of immortals, zombies and Paris.'How did you escape, Granny?' 'That's a good question. now, how did I escape?' Granny looked flummoxed. 'Sorry, it's my age, boy. I forget things.'David Walliams, Gangsta Granny, 16:30There was a pregnant silence, which I imagined was taken up by lots of boy-to-boy stare-down action Amy Plum, Die For Me, 18:30That's a pretty trinket for a street urchin to be wearing!Berlie Doherty, Treason, 16:30Amy Plum, 18:3080

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