Storytelling Tablecloths

A story making activity for the whole family! Come and draw and write your story on a paper table cloth. Margaret Bateson-Hill, author and storyteller will guide you. We’ll discover amazing characters, both heroes, heroines, villains and sidekicks! Setting – could be anywhere from your own home to outer space and of course plot- where something will go terribly wrong and our hero or heroine will need to save the day.

This event is for families so all ages are welcome, including teenagers and grandparents! It is one of three family events happening in the library on that day and families are welcome to stay all day. Each ticket is per family.

Margaret Bateson-Hill is an author who has created several books based on traditional tales, as well as the Dragon Racer series. Margaret also tells stories in schools, libraries and many of our museums including Kensington Palace, the V&A, the British Museum, the Foundling Museum, Apsley House, the Museum of the Order of St John and is one of the team of storytellers for the Horniman Museum. She has worked with various under-fives groups across London bringing books, stories and songs to pre-school children and their carers. About herself, she says: “I have not always wanted to be a writer; in fact at school I wasn't very good at writing stories, I much preferred acting them out. My sisters and I used to act out stories that we'd made up. We would include songs as well. My dad used to tell me stories every night. Either he would read one or make one up. I also remember reading hundreds of fairytales as a child - all the Andrew Lang colour book fairy tales, Grimms, Hans Christian Anderson.”