Huntly Festival of Illustration
I am now working as a volunteer with Orb’s Community Bookshop in Huntly Aberdeenshire, creating a Festival of Illustration that will take place in Aug and Sept 2024.
This will celebrate Scottish narrative illustration as well as 48 of the artists who have illustrated George MacDonald’s children’s books between the 1860’s and the present day.
George MacDonald was born in Huntly in 1824 and so 2024 is his bicentennial year.
Peter in Peril selected for publication by the German Federal Agency for Political Education
In 2022 the German edition of Peter in Peril was selected for publication as a special paperback edition, by the German Federal Agency for Political Education
(Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/Die bpb)
Adenaueralle 86, 53113 Bonn, Germany. 2022
The bpb is a federal public authority providing citizenship education and information on political issues for all people in Germany.
One of the bpb’s key activities is the provision of information on the major issues of our times. Large amounts of information are made available on their website and in a wide variety of print publications. The range of topics includes European integration, participation in politics and in society, issues relating to the economy and the financial markets, migration, and social change, as well as historical issues and democracy in general.
Another one of their key activities is the ongoing creation of new projects and the development of new methods to meet the special informational and educational needs of people with different learning abilities and people from different age groups and different walks of life.
(Information taken from www.bpb.de)