Centre for the Children’s Book,, Newcastle: The Little Boat

Renovations of a magical place, the Centre for the Children’s Book, opening again in July. The Centre is set in Ouseburn, a very individual part of Newcastle upon Tyne – spent a wonderful day there with a friend of long-standing. Every time I go there is something new to see – an inexhaustible area of the city.

June 22, 2015 - Posted by Cara Lockhart Smith | Art, Illustration, Photography, Uncategorized | boat, children's books, illustration, Newcastle upon Tyne, Ouseburn, photograph, writing

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I took our year 5 children here, it was a long journey but well worth the effort. They loved it and wished we could have stayed for longer.

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Comment by tralee68 | June 22, 2015 | Reply
- Thank you for your comment, tralee – I very much like Ouseburn, and think it is a good place for the Centre for the Children’s Book. Elizabeth Hammill, together with others, worked tirelessly to get this project off the ground, and I think the result is magnificent. I hope you manage to take another group of children there, I would have loved to go there when I was young, it would have been a real treat. I wish one of the Universities in Newcastle did an MA in Children’s Literature, they would have a wonderful resource on their doorstep. I am looking forward to making another trip to the Centre when it reopens in July.
  
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  Comment by Cara Lockhart Smith | June 24, 2015 | Reply
  - Yes, I agree. I hope to visit again this summer.
    
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    Comment by tralee68 | June 24, 2015
Thanks for this – I have never been down to that area but will now.

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Comment by northumbrianlight | June 23, 2015 | Reply
- Thanks to you for commenting, Robin. Ouseburn rewards a wander round the place, there are a lot of artists’ studios there, they are apparently all open during one week or weekend, I haven’t found out yet. The Biscuit Factory is worth a visit, but there are all kinds of very different projects in the area, not just studios – Ouseburn is well worth mooching around for a while. Hope you get to visit and enjoy yourself.
  
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  Comment by Cara Lockhart Smith | June 24, 2015 | Reply

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I’m Cara, and I live in Coldstream, in the Scottish Borders As well as writing and illustrating books for children I have recently been painting on canvas, in my octagonal studio (aka The Tardis) which inhabits a corner of the vegetable garden. My work for children has been published in several countries, and translated into different languages. My favourite form at the moment is the picture book, but I have also had published poetry, children’s novels, and illustrations for the work of other authors, and have worked extensively on projects with children. I go out most days with my camera and create blog entries from the results. Some of the pictures I take will be used as background material for the picture book which I am working on at the moment. My son Matty set up this WordPress blog for me, and it has added a dimension to my life which surprises me. It is also interesting and inspiring to read the blogs of other people from different parts of the world, and to look at their sometimes fascinating pictures.

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