Twenty Second Giraffe

The Children's Book festival at Rotherham this week had a packed programme and included Melvyn Burgess, Ian Whybrow and Ben Haggarty. Children and parents alike were spellbound by Ben Haggarty's storytelling although the content was sometimes dark and gruesome. At one of my visits to the Rotherham libraries, I was challenged by the children to draw something in 20 seconds... They asked for a giraffe.