9.00-9.30

Registration with tea and coffee to celebrate 50 years of Andersen Press with Sally Nicholls.

9.30-9.45

Welcome with YLG Chair Jenny Hawke, and Alison Tarrant, Head of Library Services at Peters (Sponsor)

9.45-10.25

Keynote speech with Camilla Reid (Macmillan). Building strong foundations: Why board books are the most important books a child will ever read. 

10.30-11.10

Writing Communities with the GLL Literary Foundation - with Nathanael Lessore (Bonnier) and Ryan Crawford (OUP) with GLL Literary Champions Miriam Storey and Caroline Nolan, Chaired by Rebecca Gediking.

11.15-11.40

Tea break with Harry Woodgate (sponsored by Usborne)

11.45-12.45

Break Out Sessions A:

1. Diverse communities panel with Cherise Lopes Baker, Commissioning Editor at Tate Publishing.

2. School community panel with Rose Robbins (Scallywag), Lisa Williamson (Guppy) and Enomwoyi Damali (Otter Barry Books). 

3. Exhibition browsing time

12.45-1.30

Lunch

1.30-2.25

Break Out Sessions B:

1. Creating Communities through reading’ with Alison Tarrant, Head of Library Services at Peters.

2. Summer Reading Challenge - with Harry Woodgate (Usborne) and Kimberley Sheehan (The Reading Agency). 

3. Exhibition browsing time

2.30-3.10

Writing Teen Communities - Kathryn Foxfield (Simon & Schuster), Aleema Omotoni (Scholastic), Nicola Garrard (Old Barn Books), Mina Ikemoto Ghosh (Scholastic)

3.15-3.40

Tea break celebrating Charlie and Lola (sponsored by Hachette Children's Group)

3.45-4.25

Accessible books with Barrington Stoke - with Bali Rai, Lucy Strange and Luke Palmer and Alisa Bathgate (publisher at Barrington Stoke).

4.30-5.30

Laureates in conversation- Chris Haughton (Laureate na nÓg, Ireland’s Children’s Literature Laureate) and Patrice Lawrence (Waterstones Children's Laureate).

5.30 onwards

Carnegies 2026 celebration and YLG Awards with 2026 Carnegie Medal winners Beth O’Brien and Kate Rolfe, and YLG Awards.