Absent Friends presents Helen Kellock - Out to Sea
- Tickets
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Free - ticket required
- Dates and times
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Saturday 9th Nov 2024
11:30AM
- Age
- Family, 4 Years +, All children should be accompanied by an adult
- Venue
Absent Friends brings you a session with Helen Kellock. Helen is an award-winning illustrator and
author based in Glasgow, specialising in books for children. Her published
works include: The Star in the Forest (2019), Out to Sea (2021), Scotland: The People, the
Places, The Stories (2023), and The Wild Beastie: A Tale from
the Isle of Begg (2024).
Helen’s debut picture book, The Star in the Forest, won the Batsford Prize for Children’s Illustration and was shortlisted for the prestigious Klaus Flugge prize. Her picture book, Out to Sea, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2022 and described by David Walliams as “one of the most gorgeous picture books [he] has ever seen.”
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