Beatrice and the London Bus Book signing

Cecco Angiolieri Book school event!
140 Children!

THE LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM

A note to the children who have attended.

Many thanks for coming along to meet me in the most wonderful venue,

The London Transport Museum!
It was such an honour to share with you stories about what inspired

the writing of Beatrice and the London Bus books and the creation of my characters.

I hope you have already started reading volume one and mostly that you are enjoying
Beatrice’ s story about her dreams, especially the dream she has to become a bus driver of a talking bus
and drive around her city to discover many wonderful things.

I hope, it’ll help you remember that not matter how weird, uncool and strange your dreams
and your imagination might appear to others ,
you should trust them and cherish them.
ALWAYS,
just like Beatrice does.
She does in fact becomes a Bus driver and really embarks on some wonderful adventures about
her wonderful town, LONDON, and with a trusted friend –
a special talking London Bus only special people can hear-
people with a great imagination.

As long as your dreams
matter to you,
and to the people who love you,
it is what matters the most.

Francesca Lombardo

A SPECIAL THANKS
TO THE LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM
and the LTM staff,
for enabling me to
meet you all,
by hosting this event on Saturday.

London Transport Museum – Children’s book Signing

&
Win London Map Colouring Books

& The Classic Tour free tickets!

THE LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM

Sat December 17, Sat 12-3pm

Meet Francesca Lombardo, the author of the newly launched children’s book series Beatrice and the London Bus on a one-to-one 5-10 minutes session with her: she will talk about how to use imagination to write stories, about what inspired the creation of the book series and the fictional characters and of course, about Beatrice’s dreams and adventures about town with her bus friend. You will also have a chance to take part to the day competition and win a spin off Beatrice and the London Bus’ London Map or the book series spin off colouring book: The London Map Colouring Book! Wrap up this exciting experience with a visit to the London Transport Museum! Free entry for KIDS.

To find out more about the universe of Beatrice and the Bus and its amazing characters, read more reviews and articles, visit the website:

www.beatriceandthelondonbus.co.uk/characters

To find out more about the London Transport Museum visit the website. www.ltmuseum.co.uk

THE EVENT is FREE but to confirm attendance and to book a one-to-one 5-10 minutes chat with the author slot send an email to cheryl@dailyfairytales.co.uk

About the book series

TRAVELLING ON A LONDON BUS, WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!

Nine-year-old Beatrice has a dream: she wants to become a bus driver but also turn a model of a Routemaster Bus into a real talking London Bus only special people can hear. Together, they’ ll travel around the city, discover its most hidden secrets and meet its very mysterious inhabitants. What if you could turn a Routemaster model bus into a real talking London Bus and become best pals? Drive the talking Routemaster Bus and together discover London’s most hidden secrets, find out everything about the city’s most intriguing tricks and traps, and meet all its mysterious inhabitants?

The London Transport Museum Gift shop

Don’t miss the magical new arrival at the London Transport Museum gift shop!
The Beatrice and the London Bus book series! all the three volumes!

A magical journey through an inquisitive child who embark into a series of Sunday drive with an imaginary yet, incredibly real friend: a Talking London Bus, a Routemaster Bus that has made the London Transport Museum as his home – across London to discover the city secrets and its mysterious inhabitants!
As you take a stroll around the shop, there is plenty of London inspired and Bus inspired gift ideas for Christmas!
Plenty of choices and, just like Beatrice’s says

“Model Buses are not just for toddlers!”

Beatrice and the London bus Idea store book event

www.ideastore.co.uk/whats-on

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BFG by Roald Dahl has been adapted into a movie!

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The BFG -favourite Roald Dahl’s book of author of Beatrice and the

London Bus which has also inspired her about the friendship between Beatrice

and her mentor the London Bus has been adapted into a movie with Mark

Rylance as the BFG by Steven Spielberg. ‪

PRESS RELEASE
2016 will see a major movie adaptation of Roald Dahl’s iconic story THE BFG, directed by Steven Spielberg. “THE BFG has enchanted families and their children for more than three decades,” said Spielberg in a statement. “We are honoured that the Roald Dahl estate has entrusted us with this classic story.” The movie will be written by Melissa Mathison, who last teamed up with Spielberg on “E.T.”. It will be produced for DreamWorks by Frank Marshall with Michael Siegel and John Madden as executive producers. Production will begin in early 2015, with a planned release in 2016 – the year which marks the centenary of Roald Dahl’s birth.” Luke Kelly, Roald Dahl’s grandson and incoming Managing Director of the Literary Estate, says: “Roald Dahl’s family and literary estate are both delighted that Steven Spielberg will bring his inventive genius to directing the story of the BFG and that one of Roald’s most beloved stories and characters will be brought to the screen in 2016 – a year when we will be celebrating Roald Dahl’s Centenary!” THE BFG was first published in 1982, though the character of the dream-blowing giant first appeared in print seven years earlier in Dahl’s novel DANNY, THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD (1975). The B(ig) F(riendly) G(iant) is one of Roald Dahl’s most loveable creations. He’s a friendly, dream-blowing giant with enormous ears – enabling him to hear “all the secret whisperings of the world” – and a passion for “snozzcumbers”. “frobscottle” and “whizzpopping”. When the BFG snatches Sophie from her orphanage, she is in for the adventure of her young life, which ranges from encounters with fiercer man-eating giants to breakfast with the Queen of England. THE BFG was Roald’s own favourite amongst his own books, according to his widow Felicity Dahl. The book is also Sir Quentin Blake’s favourite of his many collaborations with Roald Dahl. When illustrating the tale, Blake struggled to find the right shoes for the BFG to wear – in the end, Roald sent him one of his own giant Norwegian sandals to inspire him. It did the trick and the sandal is now proudly on display at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, UK

Activities in London for kids

Hello! Welcome to my Blog!
I am Beatrice and

I will tell you everything about amazing activities for kids in London and great places!

My name is Beatrice – I am nine years old and I live in London,

the most beautiful city in the world!

My BFF is Mark – but I am also best friend with a talking London Bus

only special people can hear – RM 168 via Waterloo! I am one of them!!

In this blog I’ll tell you about the best places and the most fun things to do in London!

The month of February is a very special month for us children because is half term! Yeah!! The city is full of

wonderful events, workshops and activities for us! And I can’t wait to get there with my friend the London Bus.

For this post I have chosen

THE SOUTH BANK –

a beautiful building which you’ll find by the River Thames just by the London Eye! The South Bank is a building full of artists who perform for kids and grown-ups. Sometimes you have to pay -sometimes you don’t.. and yes, some events are FREE ….which I like very much! I love the foyer in particular as it is a place where you can play, relax and have fun! Sometimes you can listen to music and see people dancing there! The 9^th of Feb starts the ‘Imagine Children’s Festival’

which will last until the 22^ndof February.

Among the many events don’t miss (Tuesday February 3, 2015 South Bank) the ON READING AND

WALKING AND THINKING performance that last until March! Artist Emmanuelle Waeckerlé will walk,dance,

and draw through a world of words…It starts tomorrow at 11. For the events starting from the 9^th you can

check the ALICE IN WONDERLANDS INSTALLATION and whorkshop- FLAMINGO CROQUET where you can play croquet with Alice in the Cloakroom – a famous actor with a long beard called Russell Brand will be there too! Here children can play the with the flamingo of the Carol Lewis book! Then there is OUR CITY; where you can pretend to be a MAYOR for one day. During this event, we children will be given the opportunity to present ideas to improve the city where we live. I love this one! I have lots of ideas for LONDON myself!!!.; Then ANIMAL RESCUE Become an animal rescuer hero; during this event we children will be ‘given the opportunity’ to save an animal of our choice as per in the book by Patric George who tells us how we can improve the lives of animals. I’m going to save Pigs -because they are pink and are very intelligent and nice !! In addition to all the other animals, of course !! Then there is CIRCLE IN THE SAND presented by Half Moon in the Foyer Space – an interactive theatre where kids up to three years old can play and experiment with sand through castles, music and buckets ( Blue Room) And this is are just some of the event – for the music lover I invite you to come see SOUTH BANK SCHOOL OF ROCK in the Foyer Space and the Kids MUSIC LAB. If you like to write stories, come to the THE FAIRY TALE HAIRDRESSER where you can learn how to write short fairy tales; and the MAD HATTER AND MAKS workshop, THE RED HOUSE BOOK AWARDS, actor Russell Brand will read his children’s book, the presentation of THE DTHE DINOSAURUS ARE HAVING A PARTY one of my fav children’s book Writer ANTONY HOROWITZ (17 Feb) will talk about ALEX RIDER, In any case, whether you are attending the writing workshops; If you enjoy writing stories or short stories or poems you can participate to the BEATRICE AND THE LONDON BUS – WRITING COMPETITION posting your written story directly to my FB page or your drawing for the BEATRICE AND THE LONDON BUS – DRAWING COMPETITION – All the stories and drawings will be published then on the website by DAILY FAIRY TALES and the winners of the two competitions will receive a SPECIAL PRIZE!!

More NEWS about LONDON Soon!

HUGS AND BUGS!

BEATRICE