We listened to a talk by the author Thiago de Moraes. He described the inspiration for his historical fiction writing and demonstrated the process of illustrating his stories. We had a go at drawing his main character!

We also listened to Natasha Farrant talk about her novel "The Voyage of the Sparrow Hawk".

We began by making inferences about the story from the front cover. Willa thought the barge was called Sparrow Hawk. Tiggy compared the book to Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo and Tolly thought they were going on a journey. 

After the festival, lots of us thought that we would like to read the novel.