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Anna Gibbons, Children's Programme Manager

This is the first children's festival that has been organised by Scottish Book Trust, have there been any surprises along the way?
There is huge demand for events with children's authors and illustrators in schools across Scotland - but I don't think we'd quite appreciated how great the need was until we surveyed our local schools about it. Over 90% of primary school teachers questioned said they would like to attend more events with their pupils - our festival is a direct response to this

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