We were excited to welcome Lauren Child to the festival

We were absolutely thrilled to welcome Lauren Child to Hazlegrove on Friday. Every single child who was at Hazlegrove during the morning saw Lauren.

The younger children heard Lauren’s new story The New Small Person and the older children found out a lot about Ruby Redfort. It was a great morning with everybody being in high spirits and excited to have such a world famous author come to our school.

Many thanks to Mr and Mrs H T for their help in arranging for Lauren to visit, and many thanks to Lauren for coming all the way to Somerset specially to see us.

We were delighted to present a cheque for £300.00 to Lauren for a charity she supports Kids Company.

Here are some comments from the children...

• "Really fun and exciting" – Grace W
• "Brilliant" – Samantha H
• "It was amazing" – Sam L
• "Funny" – Nye J
• "It was fascinating and I enjoyed every moment of it" – Dean W
• "It was thrilling that I got to see the author of some of my favourite stories" – Felix S
• "It was really nice to meet Lauren Child and to have my book signed by her" – Lara R

More comments below...

More comments:

• ‘She inspired us to read her books, and we learned we're never too old to read Charlie and Lola’. Lydia Tand Charlotte B
• ‘She has inspired me to be an author’ Hector M
• ‘Her books are sometimes funny’. Alexander H
• ‘She talked about lots of interesting things from her books, especially Ruby Redfort’. Teal Sand Ella S
• ‘Lauren Child was incredibly informative about the beginning of Ruby Redfort, about how it takes mostly truth to make the untruths believable, and finally about how the codes were the work of a professor at Oxford University’. Serena F
• ‘The Festival has been awesome. I am now reading Bodyguard by Chris Bradford and Look Into My Eyes by Lauren Child, both new authors to me who I probably wouldn’t have tried if I hadn’t met them at Hazlegrove’. Amelia W