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Events will take place in the Storytent, The Tall-Tales Tent, The Chapel, The Book Clinic and The Creative Zone<\/span><\/span><span><span>. <\/span><\/span><span><span>Children can meet their favourite authors, illustrators and storytellers <\/span><\/span><span><span>including Aoife Dooley, Alan Nolan, Patricia Forde, Megan Wynne, Sarah Webb, Alan Dunne, Dave Rudden and Graham Tugwell. Make graffiti with Street Art Ink, write letters to favourite fictional characters, or colour in pictures from stories with Orlaith O\u2019Sullivan. Baby Bop Orchestra will perform a classical music concert for early years children and families. Little ones can make magical flying creature with Olivia Hope. Sarah Sparkles presents a fun story-time for younger kids. Niamh Sharkey and Megan Churcher give a playful introduction to music, literature and art with Bringing a Line for a Walk. The Fanzini Brothers will entertain you and the CBI Book Doctors from will give advice on books children will love.<\/span><\/span><span><span> The Festival also has a schools\u2019 programme where authors and illustrators will meet hundreds of creative young people in schools across Fingal. <\/span><\/span><span><span>Check out the programme online or in your local Fingal Library to see what needs to be booked in advance and what you can walk into on the day.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":26440,"template":"","class_list":["post-26439","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fingal Festival of Children&#039;s literature - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Join us in Swords Castle for this year\u2019s Fingal Festival of Children\u2019s Literature.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/fingal-festival-of-childrens-literature-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fingal Festival of Children&#039;s literature - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Join us in Swords Castle for this year\u2019s Fingal Festival of Children\u2019s Literature. 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