Edinburgh Book Festival For Schools
The 2019 baillie gifford schools programme ran from 19 27 august 2019.
Edinburgh book festival for schools. Edinburgh international book festival. Each year we welcome the best and brightest authors and illustrators for children and teens to take part in the book festival and our events for schools are created with the curriculum for excellence in mind. The edinburgh international book festival today announced that leyla josephine has been appointed as the new schools writer in residence for citizen the next phase of its year round programme taking the book festival on the road citizen is a long term creative programme working in partnership with organisations in and around edinburgh listening to people s views about the communities in. Browse the pages below for more details on taking a trip to the book festival with your school plus information on our outreach work.
To browse past events download the 2019 schools brochure now. The edinburgh international book festival schools programme takes place from monday 20 august to tuesday 28 august and more information can be found at learning edbookfest co uk. Booking is open now and schools can also pre order books at a discount of 25. The baillie gifford gala day the final day of the festival is devoted entirely to primary schools.
The 2020 baillie gifford schools programme will be launched in april. The festival s public programme runs from saturday 11 august to monday 27 august with full details to be announced on thursday 7 june 2018.