LCFR: Hannah Maclennan- KS1

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PLEASE READ THIS INFORMATION BEFORE BOOKING:  

This is a Liverpool Children’s Festival of Reading session with Hannah Maclennan for KS1 classes, based on the book Mara of the Loch. 

 Liverpool Learning Partnership member schools* can access this session for free. For non- LLP members, please email admin@liverpoollearningpartnership.com for information about the cost of accessing LCFR events.  

 About The Author: Hannah Maclennan is an illustrator who loves creating books and drawing all sorts of characters. She has a passion for comics, picture books, art books, cartoons and storytelling. She loves drawing cute, energetic characters and incorporating bright colour palettes into her story telling.  

About The Book: An illustrated novel exploring the magic of friendship between two unexpected characters. Every summer, Isla and her mum go to the Highlands to visit her grandparents. Isla usually knows what to expect from her holiday, but this time, she meets someone different…

 About Marginal: The book is published by Marginal, the first youth-led publisher of its kind in the UK. The Marginal Leadership Programme was set up by Comics Youth CIC and is a mentorship initiative providing underrepresented young people the opportunity to express themselves through the medium of comics, artwork and writing, with the aim of providing a career pathway within the publishing industry. For more information about Marginal please visit https://www.marginalpublishing.co.uk/ 

About the session: This session will be live-streamed through the Liverpool Learning Partnership website. The event will also be available to watch for 3 working days after the event on the Liverpool Learning Partnership website. Please purchase a ticket even if you intend to watch afterwards as this will ensure you get the links to do so.  

Booking the session: Please book one ticket per school. We’ll send a link that you can then share with the colleagues so they can connect to the session. For our records you will be asked how many children will be accessing the session. We understand that numbers may change before the day so please estimate or calculate using the information you have at the moment. 

Access needs: If you have any accessibility needs, please contact us and we will do our best to accommodate these: admin@liverpoollearningpartnership.com. There will be a subtitled feed made available- please email us for access to this.  

Resources: Resources to accompany this session will be added to the festival padlet and the Liverpool Learning Partnership website where they can be downloaded. Schools who sign up early for LCFR events will receive some copies of texts for their reading areas/libraries. 

Further information: For more information about the festival please visit https://www.liverpoollearningpartnership.com/what-we-do/reading-for-pleasure/liverpool-childrens-festival-of-reading/ 

*You can find our members list on our website or for any queries re