FAQs – BookTastic

Speak to your headteacher or literacy lead about your trust hosting a festival. Share this website and encourage them to complete our Expression of Interest form.

Yes! We welcome author requests and do our best to accommodate, subject to availability and fit with festival goals.

Sessions typically include an author reading from their work, storytelling about their writing process, and Q&A with pupils, followed by a book signing. Each session is 45-60 minutes.

We provide pre-festival resources including author information, book recommendations, and excitement-building activities. Reading the author’s books beforehand enhances the experience but isn’t essential.

Approximately £16.50 per pupil for a full-year programme, including programme voting, classroom activity, festival attendance, transport and free book! This is significantly lower than individual schools booking authors independently, for a much shorter duration.

Pre/post pupil surveys, teacher feedback forms, and qualitative case studies. We can tailor evaluation to funder requirements.

Absolutely. We’re happy to design place-based festivals aligned with your geographic priorities.

Mix of trust fundraising, statutory funding, and corporate partnerships.

We can responsibly add 20-30 new schools per year with appropriate funding, maintaining quality and support standards.

BookTastic provides coordinated festival experiences (not one-off visits), handles negotiations with all major publishers (Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Walker, etc.), offers significantly lower costs through partnerships, ensures diverse author selection, provides support and resources, and measures long-term impact.

We prioritise areas serving disadvantaged communities, but our festivals include all pupils within participating trusts regardless of individual school context.

Yes! Many trusts make BookTastic an annual tradition. We refresh author selections and develop new themes each year.