The Book Bus Blog: Walking with Words across West Yorkshire

Walking with Words
11- 30 April 2016

Join Book Bus Volunteer Gail Richards as she walks 200 kms across West Yorkshire raising £10,000 to celebrate 10 years of the Book Bus.

Day 1: Monday 11th April

Walk: Mytholmroyd to Calder High School, Mytholmroyd

Story-sharing session & presentation at Calder High School

Walk: from Calder High School to Brighouse.

Day 2: Tuesday 12th April

Walk: Brighouse to centre of Huddersfield

Day 3: Wed 13th April

Berry Bow Infant & Nursery School assembly & story-sharing event with a class.

Walk: Moorlands Primary School to Lindley Children’s Bookshop

Event: 1-5pm The Children’s Bookshop, Lindley storytelling and activities.

For more information: www.childrensbookshuddersfield.co.uk

Day 4: Thursday 14th April

Walk: Local circuit

Day 5: Friday 15th April

Walk: Huddersfield to Dewsbury.

Day 6: Saturday 16th April

Walk: Spen Valley Art Trail from Dewsbury station to Oakenshaw, Bradford. Talk to people on the trail about the art and favourite books.

Day 7: Sunday 17th April

Walk: Dewsbury station to Wakefield Hepworth Gallery, story sharing and taking photographs.

Day 8: Monday 18th April

Walk: Wakefield to Leeds, Clarence Dock - story sharing & taking photos.

Day 8: Tuesday 19th April

Walk: Local circuit

Day 10: Wed 20th April

Event: 10.15-11am National Coal Mining Museum Wacky Wednesday: A taste of Africa

A fun morning full of stories, songs, dancing, instruments & dressing up for under 5s & their families/carers.
Travel underground to hear the story of local miner's.

Walk round the NCM’s nature trail

Day 11: Thursday 21st April

Walk: Clarence Dock, Leeds to Waterstones

Event: 4-5pm story-telling in the Children’s section of Waterstones, Leeds

Day 12: Friday 22nd April

Walk: Leeds to Saltaire

Day 13: Saturday 23rd April

Event at Salt’s Mill

Event: 12noon-4pm story-telling & book-sharing in the children’s corner of the Salt’s Mill Bookshop – led by Gail & local librarian Adrian Thompson.

Day 14: Sunday 24th April

Event: 10am-3pm Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Rediscover & Remake and record the families’ stories of place; and photos of the children reading near statues.
www.ysp.co.uk

Day 15: Monday 25th April

Walk from Riddlesden to Ilkley, across Ilkley Moor. www.stanzastones.co.uk

Activity: 6.30-8.30pm Ilkley LiteratureFestival’s Young Writers’ Group

Day 16: Tuesday 26th April

Walk: Local circuit

Day 17: Wed 27th April

Walk: Riddlesden to Keighley station visiting Rail Story and Carriage Works museums. Train from Keighley to Oakworth (diesel & railcar) to explore the “Railway Children” location, & read some of the famous story. www.kwvr.co.uk

Walk: The Railway Children circular walk, via Oxenhope & Haworth www.bronte.org.uk

Event: 6-8pm Storytelling session in Cobbles & Clay Café, Haworth

Day 18: Thursday 28th April

Event: Assembly & activity at Haworth Primary School

Join the Bronte Walks: as we walk together to Top Withins’ storytelling along the way & a picnic Walk: HaworthtoTop Withins www.brontewalks.co.uk and onto Hardcastle Crags