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Story time with Renae Hayward: Splish Splash Splosh!
October 3
Join WA author and poet Renae Hayward for story time featuring her new picture book, Splish Splash Splosh!, plus a behind-the-scenes look at how her books come ...
Storyteller-in-Residence
September 29 - October 3
Storyteller and host extraordinaire Glenn Swift invites you to The Story Hub: a warm, welcoming space for stories, books, rhymes and literary events at The Stor...
Uptown Brown's Pinball Palace
September 29 - October 3
Uptown Brown is a singing gentleman-adventurer who brings the sounds of 1920s and 1930s jazz and blues to life with his own one-man band. His unique setup, made...
Touch & Go
September 29 - October 3
Touch & Go is a dancing game devised especially for children aged two and three years. Featuring dance-theatre and minimal verbal language, Touch & Go e...
Spontaneous Stories with James Foley
October 1 - October 2
Join James Foley for a laugh-out-loud session where the kids are in charge. Bring your weirdest and wackiest ideas for stories, because we’ll be mashing them up...
Snuggleplay
September 29 - October 3
Snuggleplay is an intimate theatre experience designed for eight babies aged 6 to 15 months and their caregivers. Families are welcomed under the Story Tree, wh...
Skills and Thrills Circus Play
September 29 - October 3
Have you ever dreamed of dazzling a crowd as a circus superstar? The fantastic Yip Yip Circus is back at the Festival, ready to teach you jaw-dropping tricks an...
Little Impressions
September 29 - October 3
This year’s theme, 'How can I make a difference?’, invites students across Western Australia to explore recycled art and consider how even the smallest things c...
Imagination Playground
September 29 - October 3
Using giant Imagination Playground blocks, children can build a new world every day of the Festival. This interactive activity includes a wide variety of loose ...
Kooky Finds Home: A Sensory Adventure
September 29 - October 3
Kaya! Welcome, my name is Kooky! Do you know what animal I am? That's right! I am a Kookaburra! I would love to set up a home, but I often start dreaming of the...
Book Launch: Kep Barna, Worl Barna & Noongar Boodja Waangkan
September 29
Join Noongar language teacher and storyteller Jayden Boundry and illustrator Tyrown Waigana for a special celebration of their Noongar language books: Kep Barna...
Juvenilia
September 29 - October 3
Juvenilia is work produced by an author or artist while they were a child. This exhibition showcases the juvenilia of Australian children’s authors and illustra...
History Hunters
October 2
Our past is full of adventures and curious, larger-than-life characters. It is a rich vein of material for history hunter and award-winning author Mark Greenwoo...
Hermit
September 29 - October 3
I can see a square. Is it a house?There’s a noise coming from inside. What’s happening over there?Suddenly a flap opens. Could there be something inside?What co...
Create your own dystopia!
October 1
Join the authors of the new young adult dystopian-comedy Old Bertie as they explore the joys of creating their own rich fictional world. The workshop will delve...
Clay Meelyu with Dr Holly Bradley
Program updateDr Holly Bradley can no longer join us for Clay Meelyu on Saturday 3 October. We're sending her our best and hope to welcome her back to AWESOME a...
AWESOME Kids Market
September 29 - October 3
The AWESOME Kids’ Markets are back! The next generation of local young creatives and entrepreneurs have been busy creating a vast array of homemade creations wh...
Amazing Astro Animals: Book Launch
September 29
Join local author and illustrator James Foley to celebrate the release of his first-ever non-fiction book, Amazing Astro Animals!Before humans ever left the pla...
Book Boogie - A Storytime Experience
September 29 - October 3
Book Boogie is an immersive storytelling experience in which children and families become the authors of their own adventures. Guided by two playful clown libra...
Amazing Astro Animals: The Exhibition
September 29 - October 3
James Foley's brand-new non-fiction book, Amazing Astro Animals, tells the incredible true stories of animals who have been to space.Did you know the very first...
A Perfect City
September 29 - October 3
What would your perfect city look like?Join artist Charlotte Meagher in this collaborative visual art experience where children and families work together to im...
A Fear Less Storytime with Kelly Canby
September 30
Join award-winning author and illustrator Kelly Canby for a joyful, interactive storytime inspired by her latest picture book, FearLess. Together, you'll meet a...
Stellarphant by James Foley
September 29 - October 3
Stella the elephant has one big dream: to become an astronaut. The only problem is that Space Command says elephants can’t go to space.Every time Stella applies...
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