Aldbourne CBG

Aldbourne Children's Book Group.
Part of the Federation of Children's Book Groups @FCBGNews

[Aldbourne CBG @AldbourneCBG]

The photos are in of our wonderful Summer Garden Party with the fabulous @DrJaninaRamirez - here reading from Riddle of the Runes and delighting our members with the sophisticated truth about the Vikings!
Thanks @ImSamuelThomas & @CarlTee66 for the great pics!

[FCBG @FCBGNews]

National Non-Fiction November starts tomorrow! 🎉📚👏📚🎉👏 See here for ideas, books & a fab competition @lpkids https://t.co/YgobLMtWv5 #NNFN19

[Salisbury Plain CBG @CbgPlain]

A million thank you's @EastyNick ! What a lovely surprise to have this beautifully signed copy of Knock knock Alien in with our Agent Weasel badges! Thses beauties will all be heading to our book group launch day in September! ( much to my 5 yr olds disgust!! 😉😉).

[David Carson MBE 🇺🇦 @davidjmcarson1]

Love the Wiltshire Yeomanry story, this year we celebrate the foundation of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry at the Bear Inn in Devizes in 1794, the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry now form “B” (Old Sarum) and “Y” (Swindon) Squadrons of the @WessexYeomanry not on horses these days!!

[Marlborough LitFest @MarlbLitFest]

As the school holidays approach (thanks to the hardworking #teachers needing a break!) check out our Sept #childrens lineup: (@CressidaCowell sold out) @chrisriddell50 @baddiel @SirStinkySocks Tickets £5: https://t.co/I2JvgJe850 @whitehorsebooks Tel: [phone] #MLF2019 #10yrs

[Aldbourne CBG @AldbourneCBG]

Our hand-forged bookworm trophy is all set for tomorrow's leavers awards at St. Michael's - with a very special book for the winner to keep this year! Many thanks to the wonderful @minalima for signing & dedicating it for us.

[Salisbury Plain CBG @CbgPlain]

When we are all sorted & established, I would love to being able to get together a creative writing club for children in our area! In the meantime though, if there are any children ( or adults) in our area looking to start writing, have a go at this! (Fab judges too!)

[Aldbourne Archive @AldbournArchive]

Andrew Sewell (1921–2005), A gentleman with a life-long love of archaeology, a skill for field walking and a fascination with our village history. Author of many articles and letters, including 'Aldbourne: the Present Past.' Finder of the Aldbourne Hoard.
#FestivalOfArchaeology

[Salisbury Plain CBG @CbgPlain]

Tickets on sale soon! We are very excited about our official launch in September! We are so lucky to have this incredible trio along for the day 😍 @SirStinkySocks @MartinHHBrown @lo_author @journalupdate @BBCWiltshire @CastledownFM @w_woodborough @ShrewtonSchool @FCBGNews

[Aldbourne CBG @AldbourneCBG]

For bargain books and bookish badges, come on down to the Scout hut! We'll be here until 3 o'clock with all the other stalls.

[Gillian Sore @gilliansore]

This is brilliant news!! Huge congratulations to @DrJaninaRamirez for winning with her fantastic book Riddle of the Runes!

[Aldbourne CBG @AldbourneCBG]

Phew! Booked tickets for @CressidaCowell our fab new @UKLaureate! And then seeing @chrisriddell50 the next day too! We are ridiculously excited for supposedly grown-up people!

[Marlborough LitFest @MarlbLitFest]

Box office now open! Join us for our 10th year (26-29 Sept) with nearly 40 events. More info: https://t.co/MzjRdeYtt2 #MLF2019 #Marlborough #litfest #10years

[Marlborough LitFest @MarlbLitFest]

Box office now open! Join us for our 10th year (26-29 Sept) with nearly 40 events. More info: https://t.co/MzjRdeYtt2 #MLF2019 #Marlborough #litfest #10years

[Sara Sumner @SaraSumnerBooks]

@mrjamesmayhew @stephens_helen @Usborne @UsborneBAH This is what one of my schools @Stonehenge_Sch achieved earlier in the year! They raised just over £1100 through a sponsored read & non uniform day, I could add approx £800 to it and they presto...the library has received approx £1900 of much needed fiction!

[Marlborough LitFest @MarlbLitFest]

Busy @MarlbLitFest launch night at @whitehorsebooks tonight - don’t forget the box office opens tomorrow! https://t.co/MzjRdeYtt2 #MLF2019 #10years

[Marlborough LitFest @MarlbLitFest]

Listen now on @BBCWiltshire to our @MarlbLitFest Chair talking with @SueKinnear about this year's 10th anniversary Festival - tickets on sale tomorrow at 9am https://t.co/MzjRdeYtt2 #MLF2019 #10years #Marlborough #literaryfestival #leadsponsor @brewindolphin

[Aldbourne CBG @AldbourneCBG]

@CbgPlain You're welcome! It was such a confident performance, very impressive. And now you can put 'As featured on the BBC' on all your publicity material! 😎

[Aldbourne CBG @AldbourneCBG]

Start listening from 1:53 for a brilliant interview on BBC Wiltshire with @SaraSumnerBooks of @CbgPlain about their launch event in September! With a fantastic lineup of @MartinHHBrown, @SirStinkySocks and @lo_author we can't wait to go! https://t.co/iiVeEcd3eR

[Salisbury Plain CBG @CbgPlain]

Isn't this truly wonderful! @CressidaCowell, loving your style! I really hope we can help to achieve some of these with our new branch of the @FCBGNews 😊for Children living in the #Salisburyplain area

[JOG Librarian @JogLibrary]

This is wonderful ... a charter for children, for reading, for everyone!

[Aldbourne CBG @AldbourneCBG]

Happy "Way of the Waves" Day to @DrJaninaRamirez from all our young ACBG members who were lucky enough to get their hands on copies two weeks ago! They are all loving the series, and can't wait to find out what Alva does next!