Events calendar

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MARCH 2024

Thursday 6th March

Jason visited Our Lady of Lourdes primary school in Finchley in North London to read What Can You See? to Reception and Year 1 children and A Zoo In My Shoe to children from Year 2 and Year 3. The second group helped to write another chapter of the book.

DECEMBER 2024

Sunday 1st December

Jason followed Frozen’s Elsa & Olaf on the bill at the Barnet Christmas Fayre. He read excerpts from all three of his books to children from 2 to 10 years old. He didn’t get as many people queueing up as Elsa & Olaf but he certainly got more laughs!

OCTOBER 2024

Monday 7th, Tuesday 8th, Monday 28th, Tuesday 29th

Jason had a busy October, working with four libraries in the London Borough of Barnet that he and his books were yet to visit. He read What Can You See? to two groups of pre-school children during the libraries’ Grandparents’ Week and spent half term participating in reading and craft events with A Zoo In My Shoe.

JULY 2024

Thursday 18th July

Jason was delighted to join the end-of-summer-term event at Babyzone Barnet. He shared all three of his books with pre-school children and their families. The youngest were drawn to What Can You See? but those about to start school couldn’t stop laughing at I Like To Put Food In My Welly and A Zoo In My Shoe.

Saturday 13th July

Jason was the warm-up act for the head teacher at an infant school summer camp in northwest London. He read excerpts of I Like To Put Food In My Welly and A Zoo In My Shoe. The children enjoyed it so much, they joined in, which is – perhaps – a sign of just how good the teaching is at the school!

JUNE 2024

Saturday 29th June

Jason ran the book stall at the local school Summer Fair, reading and selling his own books, managing a book swap and inviting the local library staff to discuss their services with families at the school. The library drew children in with beat-the-buzzer and a bubble machine – Jason used cuddly toys.

Sunday 23rd June

Jason marked the 1st anniversary of the publication of A Zoo In My Shoe by taking the book back to the event where he previewed it last year – the East Finchley Festival. Children also enjoyed I Like To Put Food In My Welly, while the youngest children went on a journey with What Can You See?

APRIL 2024

Tuesday 9th, Thursday 11th, Friday 12th

Jason took A Zoo In My Shoe on a mini book tour of three libraries in his London borough, Barnet, visiting Hendon, Colindale and the library where he took his own children before they started school, Golders Green. The staff added special zoo-themed rhyme time sessions to coincide with Jason’s visits.

Sunday 7th April

Jason read excerpts of his three books at the Book Buzz event at the Arts Depot cultural hub in north London, where dozens of children enjoyed drawing and learning activities based on A Zoo In My Shoe, I Like To Put Food In My Welly and What Can You See?

MARCH 2024

Thursday 7th March

Jason read A Zoo In My Shoe to all three Year 1 classes at his local infant school for World Book Day and assisted each class with activities based on the book. For the first time, he was thanked with a “whoosh” and bid farewell by a dozen children waving their shoes at him.

DECEMBER 2023

Sunday 3rd December, 1pm-2.30pm

Jason shared all three of his books at the Barnet Christmas Fayre, which, for the first time, had a story-telling tent to promote local authors. The heavy rain almost made the event a washout, but when the rain subsided, families started to turn up to enjoy some rhyming fun.

Sunday 3rd December, 4.30pm-5pm

Jason returned to Our Yard at Clitterhouse Farm to share his books – and his cuddly toys – with toddlers and primary school children at the annual Festive Fair.

NOVEMBER 2023

Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd November

Jason read his 3 books at a range of events in Gateshead and Sunderland as part of the Northern Children’s Book Festival. He was delighted to help the festival celebrate it’s 40th anniversary, finding out that young readers a long way from home have the same cheeky sense of humour as they do in London.

Tuesday 7th to Friday 10th November

Jason read his pre-school book, What Can You See?, to children at Rhyme Time events at three libraries in northwest London; Hendon, Colindale and Golders Green, where he’d taken his own children, when they were babies and toddlers themselves.

SEPTEMBER 2023

Saturday 23rd September

Jason joined the welcoming folk at Our Yard at Clitterhouse Farm, to celebrate 10 years since they first brought the old farmhouse buildings into community use. Jason’s reading at the anniversary celebration was his most chaotic yet – the audience, that is, not him!

Saturday 9th September

After attending a reading event and signing of Rob Biddulph, one of his favourite children’s authors, Jason tried to put some of the things he learned to the test when he entertained a vocal crowd of children at the latest Rooted event at Our Yard at Clitterhouse Farm.

JULY 2023

Saturday 8th July

Jason read What Can You See? and A Zoo In My Shoe as part of the Rooted programme for children at the July Night Market at Our Yard at Clitterhouse Farm. He was joined by the latest addition to his team; a 5ft long cuddly snake, a version of which appears in both books.

Saturday 1st July

Jason ran the book stall at his local school summer fair, where he read and sold his own books as well as selling middle grade books for a local children’s bookshop and hosting staff from the local library, to sign up children for this summer’s Reading Challenge.

JUNE 2023

Sunday 25th June

Jason held his official launch event for his 3rd book, A Zoo In My Shoe, at the Pickled Pepper children’s bookshop in Crouch End in north London. Guests were treated to a reading and children also enjoyed some drawing activities – and chocolate covered zoo animal biscuits.

Sunday 18th June

Jason was honoured to be part of the wonderful East Finchley Festival in north London. As well as reading What Can You See? and I Like To Put Food In My Welly, he also previewed his upcoming new book, Zoo In My Shoe, to an engaged group of pre-school and primary school children.

Saturday 17th June

Jason was delighted to tease his new book, A Zoo In My Shoe, when he read his earlier books, What Can You See? and I Like To Put Food In My Welly at the wonderful, welcoming Chicken & Frog children’s bookshop in Brentwood in Essex for Independent Bookshop Week.

MARCH 2023

Friday 3rd March

Jason was excited to mark World Book Day by reading What Can You See? to three classes of reception year children at an infant school in Northwest London. The children enjoyed joining in, pointing to the pictures and finding objects in the book that matched their World Book Day costumes.

DECEMBER 2022

Saturday 10th December

Jason joined local traders and musicians at the Clitterhouse Farm Winter Fair, reading his books both privately to passers-by and publicly once the PR system was available! Together with the food, drink and braziers, they all brought warmth to a very chilly December evening.

NOVEMBER 2022

Friday 11th November

Jason read I Like To Put Food In My Welly to a group of pre-school children and their at the Little Critters playgroup near Brent Cross in northwest London, with such warm temperatures for mid November that they enjoyed the Clitterhouse Farm garden.

Friday 4th November

Jason read What Can You See? to a group of pre-school children and their at the Little Critters playgroup near Brent Cross in northwest London.

APRIL 2022

Sunday 3rd April

Jason read I Like To Put Food In My Welly and ran sessions of activities based on it at the Book Buzz Festival at the Arts Depot cultural centre in North Finchley in north London, as part of a day celebrating books and reading for children.

MARCH 2022

Thursday 3rd March

Jason read both I Like To Put Food In My Welly and What Can You See? to the pre-school room at Bright Horizons Day Nursery in Golders Green, for World Book Day. The children enjoyed it so much, they wanted him to come back every week.

OCTOBER 2021

Saturday 9th October

Jason read both I Like To Put Food In My Welly and What Can You See? to children at a popular family-friendly cafe in south Liverpool, The Little Peacock Coffee Shop. Jason was particularly gratified to have the opportunity to share his books with children outside London.

AUGUST 2021

Friday 20th August

Jason received a warm, Welsh welcome as he signed books at Victoria Bookshop in Haverfordwest in Pemrokeshire. He enjoyed meeting locals who had only recently been allowed to return to shops as Covid restrictions were beginning to be relaxed.

JUNE 2021

Sunday 20th & Saturday 26th June

Jason chatted and read his books to customers of the Book Warehouse in Golders Green, one of the few remaining independent bookshops in the area. He held two separate events, to mark the beginning and end of Independent Bookshop Week.

SEPTEMBER 2020

Sunday 6th September

Jason joined another local children’s writer to read his books outside Rea’s Place in Child’s Hill Park, in northwest London, in the first event since Covid restrictions were relaxed. Kamila Hokynkova was joined by the monkey at the heart of her book, Coco’s Adventures.

MARCH 2020

Thursday 5th March

Jason spent his first World Book Day as a published author reading What Can You See? to 75 Year 1 pupils at Garden Suburb Infant School in northwest London and helping the children with rhyming and learning activities, based on the book.

FEBRUARY 2020

Thursday 13th February

Reading I Like to Put Food In My Welly to 75 Year 1 pupils at Garden Suburb Infant School in northwest London, helping the children with rhyming and learning activities, based on the book and awarding stickers to those who came up with the best rhymes.

JANUARY 2020