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Level 5 Function Room
Monday 13 February 2012
Chris Bradford, author of the award-winning Young Samurai series, launches his new book Ring of Wind at this year's Imagine festival.
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Poetry Library
Monday 13 February 2012 - Monday 13 February 2012
Join poet Laura Dockrill to explore Roald Dahl's daring, gruesome and hilarious poetry.
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Purcell Room
Tuesday 14 February 2012
We're very excited to be welcoming Jeremy Strong back to Imagine, for another hour packed full of stories and jokes.
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Purcell Room
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Francesca Simon, bestselling author of the Horrid Henry series, reads from her new book The Sleeping Army.
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Purcell Room
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Cressida Cowell, author of the How To Train Your Dragon series, brings her larger than life stories to the Imagine festival for the first time.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 14 February 2012 - Wednesday 15 February 2012
Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn.
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Sunley Pavilion
Southbank Centre Creative Writing School
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Once you have thought up a brilliant climax for your novel, you must turn your attention to a good starting point - one that allows some solid, patient scene-setting and establishment of character.
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Purcell Room
Wednesday 15 February 2012
With storytelling and live music, Mandela Tales is a show for children created especially for Imagine by composer Shirley J. Thompson.
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Purcell Room
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Mackenzie Crook, much loved actor from The Office and Pirates of the Caribbean, reveals his talent for storytelling and illustration.
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Level 3 Function Room
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Our first book club of 2012 focuses on Kate Grenville's The Secret River, a powerful depiction of conflict between Aborigines and convicts.
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Level 5 Function Room
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Tali Sharot takes an in-depth look at how the brain generates hope and what happens when it fails.
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Level 5 Function Room
Thursday 16 February 2012
In Operation Eiffel Tower, Elen Caldecott tells the story of four children who, after their Dad moves out, hatch a plan to get their parents back together.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
James Campbell's Comedy 4 kids
Thursday 16 February 2012
Hold on to your socks and enjoy stand-up comedy for kids with Imagine favourite James Campbell.
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Level 5 Function Room
Thursday 16 February 2012
Prepare to enter the wonderful world of words.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Roger McGough, Jackie Kay & Lemn Sissay
Friday 17 February 2012
Poet Lemn Sissay shares his literary heroes and favourite books, with children battling demons, discovering new lands and conquering evil.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Red House Children's Book Award 2012
Saturday 18 February 2012
Join a star-studded shortlist of authors and be one of the first to find out who wins the Red House Children's Book Award 2012.
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Purcell Room
Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis - CANCELLED
Sunday 19 February 2012
Wildwood is the story of an epic journey into a forbidden wilderness, full of wonder, danger and magic.
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Level 5 Function Room
From Pip to Potter, celebrating the place of children in care in literature
Sunday 19 February 2012
Some of our best loved literary characters are children who are living away from home, from Peter Pan to Lyra Belacqua in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.
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Purcell Room
Friday 24 February 2012
Morris Gleitzman's latest book Too Small To Fail, looks at the global economic crisis with humour for children.
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The Clore Ballroom
Saturday 25 February 2012
Bring along old books to swap and get new stories to share at the London Children's Bookswap.
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