Children of six and over will be able to learn about conservation and create a bit of fairy magic during a wand-making workshop with The Fairyland Trust, and discover some of the amazing animals that lived in the Jurassic age, with Liz Hide from the University Of Cambridge.

Older children can take part in Spymaster Mission at Linton Village College and learn how to create fiction and non-fiction in writing workshops with writers Andrew Shea and Deborah Chancellor.

Visits from well-known authors will see Tony Mitton (The Red And White Spotted Handkerchief), Axel Scheffler (The Gruffalo) and Stuart Hill (The Icemark Chronicles).

Organiser Josephine Paterson said: "I am thrilled to be involved with the festival again this year. There have been so many interesting, talented and enthusiastic people keen to contribute that I have had to extend it from a weekend to a week to fit everyone in. It really does seem like something the whole community is interested in. We've had lots of encouragement and support, including from Linton Zoo, which is contributing prizes for a fantasy animal illustration competition."

For more information about the festival, visit www.lintonbookfest.org.