Looking for a fun day out for the little bookworms in your life? Spark their imagination at the Wee Write! Family Days! It’s an absolute must for the kids. Join us for a weekend of imaginative, literary fun!

PLAY TALK READ BUS10am – 4pm | FREEJump aboard the ‘Play Talk Read’ bus Benji, listen to stories, join in with rhymes, and get involved in some messy play. Play Talk Read have lots of easy, fun ways to help your child be happier, learn more, and enjoy a better start in life. It’s just the ticket!Ages 0 – 5 years

BIG KID TWISTER10am – 12.30pm and 1.30pm – 4pm By Donation to Wee Write Reading and Literacy Fund

A huge hit at Wee Write 2017 – Big Kid Twister return to create their amazing and unique balloon models throughout the day for you to take home.

BOUNCE & RHYME 10.30am – 11.15am | FREEAction songs, rhyme-time and stories for parents/carers and little ones to enjoy together.Ages 0 – 2 yearsARN

Saturday 19th May at the Mitchell Library

STAY, PLAY & LEARN WITH EARLY YEARS SCOTLAND | FREE10.30am – 11.30am; 12 noon – 1pm, 1.30pm – 2.30pm; 3pm – 4pmFun with craft activities, songs and rhymes, messy play, and more…Ages 0 – 5 years and their parents/carers

WHO LET THE GODS OUT? WITH MAZ EVANS10.45am – 11.45am | £5 Greek Mythology as you’ve NEVER experienced it before! Packed with giggles and games, it features Maz’s quest to find the King or Queen of the Gods from her audience. Who has the brains to become Athene, Goddess of Wisdom in Maz’s Mastermind quiz? To find Hermes, the Messenger God, competitors must deliver a message to Maz, but beware – the message has to pass through the audience via Chinese whispers first... An entertaining, educational show – look no further for an epic dose of mythological mayhem.Ages 8 – 11 years

BOOK TICKETS AT WWW.AYEWRITE.COM

A BONNIE TALE WITH ROSS MACKENZIE 11.30am – 12 noon and 12.30pm – 1pm FREE Award winning author Ross MacKenzie invites you to dive into the story of Bonnie the seal – the official mascot of the Glasgow 2018 European Championships. Join Bonnie on an animated journey from her home in beautiful Argyll to the sporting action and excitement of Glasgow 2018, learning fantastic seal and sporty facts along the way – and maybe even meet the playful seal pup herself!Ages 3+ years

TODDLERS TALES 11.45am – 12.30pm | FREEToddlers Tales is a fun, interactive activity for parents, carers and children to enjoy together – giving them the opportunity to enjoy physical play and help the child build vocabulary and knowledge.Ages 2 – 3 years

MONSTER MASH 12 noon – 1pm | FREE Join our Monster Mash as we celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein. Packed with monster stories, songs and crafts, it’s bound to be a screeaaam! Plus! Find the ‘monsters’ we’ve hidden in the library for a chance to win a café prize.Ages 7 – 10 years

LEUGH IS SEINN LE LINDA – GAELIC READING AND SINGING1pm – 1.45pm | FREE | Ages 0 – 2 years2.15pm – 3pm | FREE | Ages 3 – 5 years

Join us for a fun-filled Gaelic reading session for families with stories, songs and puppets with Linda MacLeod, star of BBC Alba’s Leugh le Linda. Although primarily in Gaelic, the session will be welcoming to parents who are learning the language, or who are non-Gaelic speakers.

DEAR DINOSAUR: T. REX ON TOUR WITH CHAE STRATHIE1.45pm – 2.45pm | £5 Have a ROARSOME time with award-winning author Chae Strathie and his fabulous follow-up to Dear Dinosaur – about Max and his very unusual pen pal, a T Rex! When Max visits his friend, the mighty T.Rex at the museum, he’s disappointed to learn that T.Rex is away. He’s on a tour of different museums around the world. But that doesn’t stop T.Rex writing to Max! Warning: this event contains some monster dinosaur facts! Ages 5+

CREATE AND COLOUR SCOTLAND WITH YVETTE WALKER2.30pm – 3.30pm | £5 Lots of arty fun with a uniquely flavoured Scottish twist, led by artist Yvette Walker. Make a fingerprint Nessie, design your own tartan, then decorate and take home your own Charles Rennie MacKintosh or Paisley Pattern inspired ‘tenement close’ tile.Ages 8+

HARRY POTTER MAGIC3.30pm – 4.30pm | £3 Back by popular demand, this fun interactive Harry Potter Adventure will have you making potions using some ghastly ingredients, casting magical spells and having lots of wizarding fun! Takes place in our atmospherically and magically decorated old library room. Harry Potter attire welcome.Ages 8 – 12 years

BOOK TICKETS AT WWW.AYEWRITE.COM

INFORMATION FOR PARENTSPlease note children under the age of 12 months attending Wee Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival for Children & Young People will receive a complimentary ticket – please ask the Box Office to support you with this request. (some restrictions apply).

Children 8 years and over may attend the event unaccompanied by an adult. Parents are required to purchase a ticket and attend events for children under the age of 8 years. A café is available in the venue for you to relax with a coffee while your child over the age of 8 years attends the event.

Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival and Wee Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival for Children & Young People may be subject to additions and changes at any time.

Check www.ayewrite.com, our Aye Write! Facebook page,

@ayewrite or ask a festival team member for support.

FIT LAB WITH GLASGOW SCIENCE CENTRE 10am – 4pm | FREEJoin the Bodyworks Team for this pulse-raising interdisciplinary experience and explore your endurance, strength, agility, speed and coordination through a range of zoned exhibits.Ages 7+ years

LEUGH IS SEINN LE LINDA – GAELIC READING AND SINGING 10.30am – 11.15am | FREE | Ages 0 – 2 years11.45am – 12.30pm | FREE | Ages 3 – 5 years

Join us for a fun-filled Gaelic reading session for families with stories, songs and puppets with Linda MacLeod, star of BBC Alba’s Leugh le Linda. Although primarily in Gaelic, the session will be welcoming to parents who are learning the language, or who are non-Gaelic speakers.

BEANO: CARTOON CAPERS WITH JIM GLEN10.30am – 11.30am | £5 Celebrate the 80th birthday of Britain’s longest running children’s comic, in this a fun-filled illustrated talk and comic workshop – Beano style! Jim Glen, comic artist and writer, who has written and drawn lots of pages for the Beano, will have you laughing and drawing your favourite Beanotown characters to take home. Ages 7+ years

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ONE BUTTON BENNY WITH ALAN WINDRAM10.30am – 11.30am | £5Benny is different, Benny is special, Benny is a Robot. Benny has a big red button in the middle of his tummy with the words ‘only press in an emergency’ on it. Benny has never pressed his button but one day something happened and he had to press it. This highly interactive picture book event includes singalong songs, storytelling, visuals, plus some ‘robot dancing ‘. Find out just what happened when Benny pressed his button.Ages 3 – 6 years

A BONNIE TALE WITH ROSS MACKENZIE 11.30am – 12 noon and 12.30pm – 1pm | FREESee Saturday listing for details.Ages 3+ years

REAL-LIFE MYSTERIES WITH SUSAN MARTINEAU12.15pm – 1.15pm | £5Susan Martineau, author of Real-Life Mysteries – The Blue Peter Book Award 2018 winner for Best Book with Facts, gives us some extra spooky and mysterious cases that are still as mind-bending today as ever. Spontaneous human combustion, scary, hairy creatures, monsters of the deep, unexplained disappearances – Real-Life Mysteries has them all. A seriously spooky event for everyone who loves a good mystery. Can YOU explain the unexplained? You’ve been warned!Ages 8+ years

Sunday 20th May at the Mitchell Library

Waterstones will have a pop-up bookshop at The Mitchell Library during the Wee Write! Family Days, stocking books by all our Wee Write! festival authors. Author book signings

will take place after each event.

In Person: In advance from Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, City Halls and Tramway (during box office opening hours).On the day from the Mitchell Library Box Office. All purchases in person in advance or on the day during the family days have no booking fees.

Online: www.ayewrite.com (online purchases subject to £2 booking fee per transaction). By Phone: 0141 353 8000 (phone purchases subject to £2.50 booking fee per transaction).

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE:

BOUNCE & RHYME 1pm – 1.45pm | FREEAction songs, rhyme-time and stories for parents/carers and little ones to enjoy together.Ages 0 – 2 years

MISSION EXPLORE: TOM MORGAN-JONES1.45pm – 2.45pm | £5Become publishers, writers and illustrators and create your own book of missions to explore the world in this amazing interactive workshop. Learn to fold paper into a book, take part in a draw-along with Tom to create the cover, fill the book with missions – and get exploring! Can you capture the smell of the festival? Can you find minibeasts? Can you climb Mount Kilimanjaro – without ever leaving the house? After this workshop, you most certainly can!Ages 7 – 12 years

ROALD DAHL’S “THE TWITS” WITH JOHN KIRK2pm – 2.40pm | £4“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” Mr and Mrs Twit are perfectly vile and disgusting people who love to play tricks on innocent people and animals but when the Roly Poly Bird visits from Africa everything will be turned upside down. Be prepared for silly behaviour in this highly interactive show which contains twits being vile to each other. Roald Dahl’s The Twits is performed by master storyteller John Kirk with the kind permission of Casarotto Ramsay and the Roald Dahl Estate.Ages 6 + years

TODDLERS TALES2.15pm – 3pm | FREEToddlers Tales is a fun, interactive activity for parents, carers and children to enjoy together – giving them the opportunity to enjoy physical play and help the child build vocabulary and knowledge.Ages 2 – 3 years

BOOK TICKETS AT WWW.AYEWRITE.COM

I DON’T LIKE POETRY! WITH JOSHUA SEIGAL2.30pm – 3.30pm | £5Exciting young poet and performer Joshua Seigal’s debut book was shortlisted for the 2017 Laugh Out Loud Awards – the UK’s only prize for funny children’s books. This energetic and hilarious show will include audience participation, will have you shouting that poetry is the place to be and is perfect for anyone who needs a giggle. Joshua has taken his critically-acclaimed poetry shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, but usually ends up performing in front of his mirror, using a hairbrush as a microphone. Ages 8+ years

JEREMY STRONG’S “THE HUNDRED MILE AN HOUR DOG” WITH JOHN KIRK3.10pm – 4pm | £4Streaker is a mixed up dog; part greyhound, part rocket and Trevor has until the end of the Easter holidays to train her otherwise arch pain Charlie Smugg is going to dunk him in a bath full of frog spawn. Will any of Trevor’s crazy plans work or will they just get him into more trouble with his parents and the Police? Find out as storyteller John Kirk tells Jeremy Strong’s hilariously funny The Hundred Mile an Hour Dog. The Hundred Mile an Hour Dog is presented with the kind permission of David Higham Associates and Jeremy Strong.Ages 6 + years

HARRY POTTER MAGIC3.30pm – 4.30pm | £3 Back by popular demand, this fun interactive Harry Potter Adventure will have you making potions using some ghastly ingredients, casting magical spells and having lots of wizarding fun! Takes place in our atmospherically and magically decorated old library room. Harry Potter attire welcome.Ages 8 – 12 years

WARRIOR QUEEN SGÀTHACH & THE BLUE MEN OF THE MINCH WITH ARIEL KILLICK3.30pm – 4.30pm | £5 Join us on a fantastical, fun bilingual Gaelic adventure with Scotland’s original supernatural superheroes! Visit the infamous Fairy Pools, the Cuillins & more as we find out about the origins of the Northern Lights, the Blue Men of the Minch & the Fairies as they help Warrior Queen Sgàthach in an epic battle to keep her kingdom from the Evil King!Ages 7 – 10 years