Rashmi Sirdeshpande

Rashmi Sirdeshpande is an award-winning children’s author and a former World Book Day author whose books have been published around the world and featured in a number of newspapers from The Guardian to The Wall Street Journal. Her first picture book, Never Show a T-Rex a Book, illustrated by Diane Ewen, won the Society of Authors Queen’s Knickers Awards and the Anna Dewdney Award in the USA and was shortlisted for the Lollies. The sequel, Never Teach a Stegosaurus To Do Sums, was shortlisted for the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards and was a Children’s Book Council Children’s Favourites and Teacher Favourites winner in the USA.

Festival Schools Programme

Get ready for some dino fun in this imaginative, interactive event which uses a magical WHAT IF as a launchpad for stories.

What if a T-Rex learns how to read? What if a stegosaurus falls in love with maths and coding and builds a rocket to go up into space? What if a diplodocus learns to draw and becomes an art sensation? What mischief would they get up to? Find out in this celebration of learning, reading, STEAM and art!