Partners and Sponsors
Bookfeast are grateful for the support of our partner organisations and sponsors. We are proud to work with a number of publishers, educationalists:
Blackwell
Oxford University Press. Oxford Children’s Books.
Oxford University Press is one of the UK’s leading publishers. Oxford Children’s Books has something for every child with a children’s list that includes picture books, fiction, poetry, home learning, dictionaries and non-fiction. OUP’s list includes many award-winning authors such as Tim Bowler, Gillian Cross, and Geraldine McCaughrean, as well as debut authors and spectacular illustrators. Favourite picture books such as Winnie the Witch continue to delight children and their wonderful non-fiction titles are full of fascinating facts to enthral young readers. OUP offer a home-learning and dictionary range that provides the only complete dictionary range for children aged between 4 and 16 and the ever expanding Read at Home scheme based on the ever popular Oxford Reading Tree.
For further information visit WWW.OXFORDCHILDRENS.CO.UK
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History houses the University’s scientific collections of zoological, entomological, palaeontological and mineral specimens. With over 5 million specimens it is the largest collection of its type outside of the national collections. The Museum itself is a Grade 1 listed building, renowned for its spectacular neo-Gothic architecture. Among its most famous features are the Oxfordshire dinosaurs, the dodo, and the swifts in the tower.
For further information visit WWW.OUM.OX.AC.UK
Pitt Rivers Museum
Reached by walking through the Museum of Natural History, the Pitt Rivers Museum of Anthropology and World Archaeology is an Aladdin’s cave, with a memorable atmosphere that has inspired artists, novelists and poets. A collection of more than 18,000 artefacts was donated to the University in 1884 by General Pitt Rivers (1827–1900); the Museum now holds over half a million, from all corners of the world and all periods of human history, and including extensive photographic and sound archives. The collections are densely displayed according to ‘type’ (how objects were made or used), rather than by cultural origin or age, and many objects still bear their original tiny handwritten labels. Visitors can see a Haida totem pole over 11m high, whistling arrows, masks and musical instruments, a Samurai suit of armour, and a witch in a silvered, and as yet unopened, bottle from Hove in Sussex.
The Story Museum
The Story Museum collects and celebrates children’s stories in all forms. It takes performances, exhibitions, activities and ideas to schools and communities and will open as a world centre of children’s literature and storytelling in Oxford in 2014.
For further details see WWW.STORYMUSEUM.ORG.UK
Oxfordshire County Council
The Sants Charitable Trust
The Charity of Thomas Dawson
Oxfordshire Age Concern
Wates Foundation
Oxfordshire County Libraries
Ernest Cook Trust
Siobhan Dowd Trust