Castle and Marketplace
Children’s author Kathryn Simmonds will be talking to children and reading from her books Be My Sunflower and Twenty Bears.
A book about finding your courage even when you’d rather play it safe.
The children are planting sunflowers at school and Carla gets given a seed called Vernon. All the other children’s seeds are excited to get out of the packet and start growing. Not Vernon. He knows about slugs, and birds, and thunderstorms. The world is scary.
But when Vernon realizes how upset Carla is, he understands that he needs to pluck up his courage, push himself out of the ground, and face the world…
