SATURDAY 16th JUNE at 11.00

FOR PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN

WITH PARENTS

 

Come along for an hour of

SONGS, RHYMES & NONSENSE

with one of Scotland’s top children’s performers.

You can even let them shove their Granny off a bus!

 

SUNDAY 17th JUNE at 10.30

FOR P1 TO P4

STORIES AND SONGS.

Join Tony for an hour of high-energy songs and stories full of guaranteed fun and laughter.

Not to be missed.

 

Tony Bonning is a Scots-born writer, storyteller and musician who lives in Kirkcudbright, Galloway. Regularly working in schools and libraries across Britain, Tony who writes for both adults and children has written three bestsellers.

 

He is co-founder of Markings, the national poetry magazine, and held the post of children’s poet-in-residence on the Western Isles in 2001.

 

Tony is rated as one of Scotland's top performers for young children. Children love his high energy mix of stories and songs with a Scottish flavour. His experience comes from interactions with his seven children and with the five music groups which he runs for pre-school children.

 

He is the Founder and Director of the Galloway Children’s Festival, the largest event for children in South-West Scotland.

 

Tony’s books for children are:

Great Goat Chase; Little Tiger

Stone Soup; Gullane

Another Fine Mess; Gullane

Snog the Frog; Gullane

Additional titles are:

Young Burns; Waverley

 

Galloway; Cauldron Press

This is a coffee table book containing top class photographs of Scotland’s South West region and a vibrant text covering its history, geography and folklore.

Arran; Cauldron Press

 

This is a high quality coffee table style book in sewn paperback, of the island of Arran. With 115 full colour landscape photographs and a light descriptive text. This is a revised paperback edition of a very popular book.

 

Ark (poems) Wider Eye

TONY BONNING