Cathy Cassidy Launches the 2012 MCBF Reading & Writing Relay, Monday 2nd July, 10am, Longsight Library
Words and Photographs by Kevin Danson
Before I had the chance to start writing up the Reading & Writing launch this morning, posts had already started flooding in from nurseries, parents and even China! I have let some slip through the net while I put this together, but here is the official opening to the MCBF Relay 2012.
After seeing Cathy yesterday read at Cloud 23 of Manchester's Hilton Hotel, I was more than eager to meet up with her once again, especially on a drizzly Monday morning in Manchester, since I left feeling like I had a top notch mental massage.
James Draper and Kaye Tew, the Festival Directors, handed Cathy the Relay Baton (conveniently, also a pen) to sign her latest book of the Chocolate Box Girls series, Summer's Dream.
More signings, smiles and quick natural poses and the Mighty Pen was taken by our relay runner, Kalu, to Stanley Grove Primary School.
A ginormous thank you to Cathy Cassidy, the children who came to launch our MCBF 2012 Relay and to Kalu who helped pass on the power of the written word.
Our Relay Baton has now reached Longsight Library, Stanley Grove Primary School, St Peter's High School, St Luke's C of E Primary School and will be getting to the Power House Library in Moss Side tomorrow morning.
If your school has not yet put its name down to take part in our Reading & Writing Relay, simply email mcbfschools@mmu.ac.uk. You can always show your support by sending any coverage of reading and/or writing events to mcbf@posterous.com - more information can be found here. We want to encourage any schools with international links (twinned schools) to get involved too. We hope we can get to all four corners (circles don't have corners?) of the world!
If your school has not yet put its name down to take part in our Reading & Writing Relay, simply email mcbfschools@mmu.ac.uk. You can always show your support by sending any coverage of reading and/or writing events to mcbf@posterous.com - more information can be found here. We want to encourage any schools with international links (twinned schools) to get involved too. We hope we can get to all four corners (circles don't have corners?) of the world!
A ginormous thank you to Cathy Cassidy, the children who came to launch our MCBF 2012 Relay and to Kalu who helped pass on the power of the written word.
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