'One big virtual love-in': how children's book authors are creating online sanctuaries

Authors are going live in real time to engage children and create a safe place where imaginations are fired

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The children’s author and illustrator wunderkind Oliver Jeffers has started a stay-at-home story time where he reads a book a day live on Instagram. And they are pure magic.

Jeffers, in quarantine in Belfast, is reading a story a day, having started with his first ever book How to Catch a Star.

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Pour a glass of milk (if you like milk) and join me for the first installment of Mac’s Book Club: Chapter Books After Dark

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Let us know if you have discovered any other authors doing this, and we’ll update the list.

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