Discover Children's Story Centre

Roll up, roll up... This immersive family adventure takes you through a fantastical circus tent and into the woods. In amongst the trees you’ll find an amazing, marvellous, EXTRAORDINARY… Monster Funfair! Built entirely by monsters, our new immersive exhibition features all sorts of weird and wonderful fairground attractions – a dinosaur laser maze, a beastly fun house, mini bumble-bear bumper cars, a rollercoaster slide and lots lots more. Created with the award-winning Nadia Shireen, this magical world also has a fairground mystery to solve – just who has stolen ALL the candyfloss? Monster Funfair features characters from Nadia’s books, including Billy and Fatcat, The Bumblebear, the Grimwood series and more. About Nadia Shireen: Nadia Shireen has been making picture books since 2010, when her debut Good Little Wolf burst onto the scene and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Since then, she’s published many more books including Barbara Throws A Wobbler, Billy and the Beast, The Cow Who Fell To Earth and Geoffrey Gets the Jitters. In 2017, The Bumblebear was distributed to over 700,000 children as part of Booktrusts’s Time To Read campaign. Her anarchic series for older readers, Grimwood, was a World Book Day title in 2022 and has since taken the playgrounds of the nation by storm. Nadia has won the UKLA book prize twice, and lost many others (though she still likes to be nominated.) She lives in Brighton. About Discover Children's Story Centre: Discover Children's Story Centre is a place where children and their families can enjoy playing, learning and making up stories together. The UK’s first Story Centre for children aged 0-11 and their families, our aim is to support a love of language, literature and stories. At the heart of the centre, our purpose-built Story World and Story Garden are creative play spaces designed to inspire children’s curiosity and imagination. We help improve reading, writing, speaking and listening skills for children in fun and imaginative ways. Hootah, our resident baby space alien, is always on the look-out, encouraging children to create their own stories to send back to his planet Squiggly Diggly. Changing annually, our interactive exhibitions immerse families in the worlds of their favourite authors and illustrators, from Michael Rosen to Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler to Judith Kerr. Our Story Builders lead our interactive exhibition sessions and 0-3’s Storytelling, and pop up in the Story Worlds and Story Garden to tell more tales. Throughout the year we invite much-loved and up-and-coming authors, illustrators and other artists to run exciting events. We also work in schools, libraries community spaces and at festivals. Last year over 100,000 children and adults engaged with Discover. We have been awarded the Visitor Attraction Quality Assurance marque from Visit Britain and the Learning Outside the Classroom kitemark.

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