With help from a Lottery grant Bexhill Children's Book Festival will organise a festival to give local children the chance to meet nationally known authors, illustrators, poets and story tellers. This year the group will hold a competition open to all school children in Rother to help promote the festival and increase the numbers who attend. There will also be puppet-making and drama workshops for the first time which will encourage the children to take up a new hobby and develop new skills.