Find information about where and when the conference is taking place here.

Brighton Children's Book Festival is an annual event celebrating children's book writing, illustrating, publishing and beyond. Offering a combination of talks, hands-on workshops, and networking events, the festival runs on a different theme each year (Children of the South in 2007, Leaping from the Page in 2008). Open to adults and young people, the festival appeals to parents and children, teachers and librarians, aspiring and practicing children's book authors and illustrators, and people working in electronic media, TV, film and publishing. We also run a parallel series of community events in partnership with THE SOUTH. We always make an effort to highlight local children's book creators.

The Festival Director is Laura Atkins.

The Advisory Board for the festival is comprised of Laura Atkins, Dawn Casey, John Davies, Paul Madden, Ruth Price and Nicky Singer.

Brighton Children's Book Festival 2008 is supported by Brighton Children's Festival, British Bookshops, the University of Brighton, glu consultancy, Latest 7, Laura Atkins Consultancy, Messenger Communications Ltd, out post sound Ltd., Screen South, Shedman, THE SOUTH, Terrier TV and Urbanflo.

Click here to see what happened at last year's festival (2007)