The UCCA 2012 Children’s Reading Workshop Master Series is presented in cooperation with Poplar, Japan’s largest children’s book publisher. This is a wonderful opportunity for kids and parents to experience and enjoy the work of some of the world’s finest children’s authors, illustrators and storytellers.

Children’s Reading Workshop Master Series 1: Illustrator John Burningham
The first edition of UCCA’s Children’s Reading Workshop Master Series is about the award-winning children's author and illustrator John Burningham.

A Reading Reminder
UCCASTORE has great illustrated books for both kids and adults!

*Reservations required.
UCCA members enjoy priority booking for this program. Please contact Membership Department for details. Non-members please call 57800200 between 11:00-18:00, Tuesday-Friday, for a reservation number.
On the day of event, present your reservation number at the UCCA desk upon check-in.
Only one seat per telephone booking, please.

Guests: John Burningham, Lin Jing

Burninghham was born in 1936 in Surrey, England. As a child, he attended 10 different schools. When he was 12 years old, he enrolled in Summerhill School, a boarding school in Suffolk, England. Summerhill, an alternative “free” school founded in 1921 by A.S. Neill, had a profound impact on the young Burningham, and would continue to influence him throughout his life and career.

Burningham got his big start when he was hired to illustrate the children’s adventure serial Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (written by Ian Fleming, the same author who created 007 superspy James Bond!) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, about the adventures of an intrepid little car of the same name, would go on to become one of the world’s best-loved series of children’s books, and John Burningham would go on to become one of the world’s most successful children’s authors, with over 60 books to his name.

Lin Jing (literacy advocate and early childhood education specialist)

Partner: POPLAR