• Thursday 25th April
  • Schools Attending: St Charles’ Primary P2/3 & St Margaret’s Primary P1
  • Venue: Paisley Central Library & Johnstone Library

One Button Benny is back in a fantastic new picture book adventure. In this third book, One Button Benny and the Dinosaur Dilemma, Benny and his friends are trapped underground with a hungry dinosaur on the loose.

Will Benny have to press his ‘Emergency Button’? Can they escape being crushed and eaten by the dinosaur? Will they make it back in time for the Friday dance party?

Join award-winning author Alan Windram for this fantastic, interactive, fun-filled picture book event, with stories, specially-written songs and even some robot dancing.

This book is all about friendship, working together, inclusiveness and uniqueness – everyone is special and has something to give.

Alan Windram is an award-winning author of the hugely popular One Button Benny series of picture books. Over the last year Alan has toured his Bookbug Picture Book Prize winning robot picture book and the recent sequels around schools, libraries and major book festivals. Alan is an accomplished singer-songwriter with four independent albums of original songs under his belt. He has toured extensively with some of Scotland’s top musical artists. Alan is also the co-founder of Saltire award-winning children’s publisher Little Door Books, he lives in Argyll and Bute with his wife and two cats, Sparkie and George.

TIPS FOR TEACHERS

Creativity: Using recycled household materials, inspire the children to build their own robots and robot world.

Music: Download and use the singalong action songs that accompany the book to tell the story. The children can join in by playing percussion instruments to the music.

Illustrative art: Watch as Benny’s world comes to life through the illustrations of Chloe Holwill-Hunter. Draw and create robots and robot worlds.

Health and Wellbeing: Sing, jump, dance together.

Expressive Arts: Sing along and join in the actions from the songs. Come up with ideas to write a song. Lots of audience participation. Everyone is special and has something to give. The book is all about inclusiveness and uniqueness.

WEB: www.littledoorbooks.co.uk
Twitter: @littledoorbooks @akwindram

Contact the Paisley Book Festival School Programme Committee at pbfschools@renfrewshire.gov.uk for further information.