Geronimo Stilton joining Line-Up for Emirates Airline Festival Of Literature 2020

- December 10, 2019 , by Maagulf
Geronimo Stilton joining Line-Up for Emirates Airline Festival Of Literature 2020

Dubai, UAE, 9 December 2019: Children visiting the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 2020 are in for a treat with the mouse super star Geronimo Stilton added to the line-up. The Festival warns parents there will be plenty of high jinks and merriment in the session with the wildly popular cheese loving mouse, which is on sale today for only AED 39.

 

The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, which takes place 4-9 February 2020 at the InterContinental, Dubai Festival City, will welcome more than 150 authors, speakers and now man-sized mice. Geronimo Stilton is a smash hit among 6-12 year olds and the books, which number more than 100, have sold more than 170 million copies in 49 languages. The popular mouse will be joined by his creator, Elisabetta Dami, author and self-described mother of Geronimo Stilton.

 

The session, titled Geronimo Stilton’s World of Adventure, takes place 16:00 – 17:00, Saturday 8 February, 2020.

 

Ahlam Bolooki, the festival director for the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature said: “In our achievement-oriented world, adults often focus on the benefits of reading for children and we know there are plenty. We agree with all of them. But as a Festival, we are keen to share with children of all ages the fantastic fun and the delight that can also be found between the pages of a book. Geronimo Stilton is certainly one many of our Festival sessions that will bring this to life.”   

 

The Festival is held with Founding Partners Emirates Airline and the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), the Emirate’s dedicated authority for heritage, arts, and culture.

 

Children will be spoiled for choice at the Festival with highlights for the youngest including Oliver Jeffers, with his popular picture books Stuck, The amazing book eating boy, and many more; Ross Collins, with his Animal Antics session which might answer the question What does an anteater eat?; Nadia Hussain, with her latest picture book My Monster and Me which is about anxiety and reassures younger children who feel anxious; and Dubai’s very own Magic Phil.  

 

Once children start to enjoy chapter books, they will delight in the latest capers from Zanib Mian, the creator of Planet Omar, who brings more tales of the wonderful Omar, the Accidental Trouble Magnet, and shows why being different is a very positive thing. They can revel in Roald Dahl’s Rotsome and Repulsant Words with Fiona Ross and Sara-Jane Arbury, or accompany author and storyteller Christopher Lloyd on an entertaining journey to discover the interconnections of the human and animal worlds in Humanimal. Space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock will inspire new generations of astronauts, engineers and scientists, with her infectious enthusiasm for sharing the wonders of space through her “Tours of the Universe”.

 

Onjali Q. Raúf’s book about a refugee, The Boy at the Back of the Class, won the 2019 Blue Peter Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and she returns with an equally thought-provoking book, The Star Outside my Window. Feelings of not fitting in are addressed by Tamsin Winter in her funny, heart-warming and moving book Jemima Small Versus the Universe. Tamsin is a previous winner of the Festival’s Montegrappa Writing Prize, as is Lucy Strange, the bestselling author of The Secret of Nightingale Wood, who returns to Dubai with her latest gripping novel, Our Castle by the Sea.

 

Young Adults can explore the world of 5fingers with Joshua Raven, where characters fight for freedom against an enemy with a multitude of faces. Fantasy writer Alwyn Hamilton’s Rebel of the Sands series is an epic story of swirling desert sands, with adventure and danger always close at hand. Rehan Khan’s latest book features Will Ryde and Awa Maryam Al-Jameel on a quest to locate a fabled suit of armour in sixteenth-century Istanbul. There is also Greek Mythology as you’ve never seen it before, presented by Maz Evans. Based on her Who Let the Gods Out series, this interactive theatre presentation is both entertaining and educational, so join in for an epic dose of mythological mayhem.

 

Education is at the heart of the Festival and the Education Days, Student Sessions, School Visits and Children’s Competitions last year reached more than 30,000 students across the country.

The Festival sees the culmination of the student writing competitions, with winners announced in special ceremonies for the Oxford University Press Story Writing Competition, the Taaleem Award for poetry, the Chevron Readers’ Cup quiz competition and the Emirates NBD Poetry for All performance poetry competition. The winners of the School Librarian of the Year Award will also be honoured at a special event.

The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature is held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai.

For the full list of authors, visit emirateslitfest.com/authors

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