Children's

A children's book festival puts young readers in the same room as the people who make their books. Expect read-aloud sessions, illustration tables and signings where a child hands over a well-thumbed copy. Somerset Storyfest sits under this tag.

Somerset Storyfest is the listing here, and it is built around young readers rather than around the business of publishing. A comics fair trades in panels and artists, a crime fair in suspense and forensics; a children's book festival trades in picture books read aloud, in illustrators drawing live while a room watches, in authors who answer questions about talking animals without breaking character. The audience is families, and the day is paced for short attention spans.