Special storytime with Karen George on the 26th June

We are very excited to have award winning illustrator Karen George coming into The Golden Treasury for a very special storytime to launch her new book 'Wake Up Do, Lydia Lou!'. This is Karen's brand new book with children's master storyteller Julia Donaldson, following on from their hugely successful first book together 'Freddie and the Fairy'.

Join us on Wednesday 26th June at 4pm to hear Karen reading her brand new book and also 'Freddie and the Fairy' and watch as she brings the stories to life with her illustrations! Karen will be signing copies of her books at the end. Booking your place is essential as space is limited. If you are unable to attend but would like a signed copy, please do not hesitate to contact the shop.

.

This book tells the story of how a little ghost tries to give Lydia Lou a scare ...but he can't even wake her up. So he fetches his noisy animal friends to help: Mew! Moo! Too-whit too-whoo! Wake up do, Lydia Lou! Will anything ever wake her? A gentle and playful bedtime read from the author of THE GRUFFALO, full of fun sounds which children will love to join in with time and time again.

Special thanks to Sally Oliphant at Macmillan for helping to set this up.

Inspired drawing!

Thank you to all our entrants in our cats and dogs drawing competition. We loved seeing all the wonderful portraits of family pets and puppies some were wishing for! Award winning illustrator and author Emily Gravett kindly agreed to judge all the drawings we received and picked some worthy winners and runners-up. So, here comes the drumroll...(and some photos!)

Winners for the cats:

Ambar and Matilda

Ambar with her lovely prize

Matilda looking very happy!

 Runners-up for cats:

Maia and Tarrin

Winners for dogs:

Charles and Isla

Charles was a winner!

Little Isla

Runners-up for dogs:

Catie and Thomas

Thomas complete with his 'party' look!

A big, big, thank you to Emily Gravett and also Catherine Alport at Macmillan for supporting the competition. Our customers throughly enjoyed the rival windows!

We love cats and dogs drawing competition. To be judged by Emily Gravett!

We love cats and dogs here at The Golden Treasury and we're sure you do too! Our new window displays celebrate all that is great about all the meows and woofs in the world. 

So, we are calling on the huge creative talent we have here in Southfields, to get scribbling, painting, doodling, sticking, colouring, as part of a competition to contribute to our window displays with a picture of a cat or dog. This is a competition, so of course we need to judge and we are beyong excited to say that author and illustrator Emily Gravett will be coming along to The Golden Treasury to pick the best!

Emily is no stranger to the subject of our furry friends. She has written and illustrated Dogs, a celebration of all the wonderful characteristics that make up man's best friend and also Matilda's Cat, a story of the sweet friendship between Matilda and her cat.

There are some brilliant prizes to be had, so drop in to pick-up an entry form and get creative!!!! Pop into the shop if you have any questions. Closing date is Friday 31st May. Thanks to Catherine at Macmillan for the great support too!

A visit from Jackie Morris

This week, we were very lucky to have a visit from the incredibly talented author and artist Jackie Morris. You will know Jackie's artwork from her many beautiful books including The Snow Leopard, Tell Me a Dragon and most recently, East of the Sun, West of the Moon.

East of the Sun, West of the Moon

 Jackie spent her time at The GT signing copies of some of her books, as well as enjoying a browse around the shop. She was particularly enamoured with Jon Klassen's new book This is Not My Hat (as are we) and it was great to have the chance to discuss different books and styles of illustration with such an expert!

We hope Jackie will come back at some point for a more public event and to meet some of our lovely customers, so we will keep you posted on that.  In the meantime, we still have some signed copies in stock, so do come and have a look, they're all gorgeous.

Thanks for coming Jackie, we hope to see you again soon!

Easter bunny, just because...

Wishing all our customers a very happy Easter!

We will be closed on Easter Sunday and the Bank Holiday Monday. We are back open on Tueday the 2nd April and we look forward to welcoming you all back in to the shop!

Riversdale School Competition Winner

We were honoured to be asked to judge local primary school Riversdale Primary's Make a Book competition a couple of weeks ago.  The children and their families were tasked with creating a book of their own, and the entires were FANTASTIC!  It was a really difficult decision, but after much deliberation we chose the wonderful entry 'Dogs' by Brian Picicco in Year 2.


We loved Brian's hand-written and hand-drawn pages, as well as the carefully cut out and stuck pictures.

We displayed Brian's book in our World Book Day window to be admired by our customers and we are very proud to have been involved in such a lovely project.

So well done Brian, and well done to all the Riversdale pupils who entered the competition!

World Book Day...week

World Book Day came, it conquered and has now gone.

I'm rounding off a mad, busy, fun and exhausting week of school bookfairs, author events and meeting new readers, with a cuppa next to a certain Mr Rosen.

This is Michael Rosen's head of poetry hair, made by visual artist Laura X Carle as part of the Southbank's Imagine Children's Festival. Best set of pearlies this side of the river.