CBI is committed to hosting and facilitating a wide variety of brilliant book-themed events for both children and adults too! In addition to the Children's Book Festival every October and our annual Summer Conference in May, we also run a series of other exciting events throughout the year, such as regional author tours and Arts Centre activity days.

In 2007 CBI assisted in staging:

• Two ‘Read All Over' books activity days with The Linen Hall Arts Centre in Castlebar and The Ark Children's Cultural Centre in Dublin.
• Two school visits by performance poet Valerie Bloom, in collaboration with Poetry Ireland.
• A Darren Shan author tour to The Belltable Arts Centre in Limerick, The Linen Hall and The Mill Theatre, Dundrum.
• An author session with CBI Bisto Award winner John Boyne at The Ark, with two schools groups involved with the Shadowing Scheme.
• Farmleigh 'Picture The Story' Day (see below)
• The Children's Book Festival, featuring over 1500 book-themed events over four weeks nationwide!

To find out more about what's in store for the coming months please check our on-line events calendar.

CBI are always looking for new partners to help us bring the best in children's books to the widest audience! If you are an artist, publisher, school or venue interested in working with CBI please contact Programme Officer Tom Donegan, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , tel. 01 8727475