This year’s event was a great success, with over 1800 people attending, the largest number in the Festival’s nine-year history. During two days of perfect weather, the grounds of the Norman Lindsay Gallery in Faulconbridge provided the ideal venue for storytelling,musical

performances, face painting, craft activities and a variety of handicraft and refreshment stalls.The Dymocks book store was crowded with people eager to purchase books by their favourite authors and there was great excitement in the queues waiting to meet the authors and illustrators and have their books signed.

The marquees were packed for each talk, whether aimed at children or adults, and there was plenty of laughter and lots of questions from audience participants. The wonderful authors and illustrators who made the Festival such a success this year were Andy Griffiths, Emily Rodda, Anna Fienberg, Deborah Abela, Libby Gleeson, Dave Hackett, James Roy, Jo Henwood and Pete Evans.