Trailblazing Japanese troupe brings their signature ‘floating’ illusion and boundary-pushing dance to the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival, inspiring a new generation of performers
Sharjah, April 29, 2025
The Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF 2025) welcomed Airfootworks – Japan’s gravity-defying acrobatic act, who gave hundreds of schoolchildren an electrifying performance.
Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival panel stress the urgent need for collaboration between families, schools and policymakers to foster creativity and critical thinking
Sharjah, April 29, 2025
Education systems worldwide are at a critical crossroads, caught between the industrial-age model of standardisation and the fast-changing demands of a digital, AI-driven world. That was the resounding message from a panel discussion on “Education Systems and Students’ Creativity” held at the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF 2025) on Monday.
Panel at Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival featuring Britain’s Sarwat Chadda and Emiratis Dr Fatima Al-Zahra’ bin ‘Arab, Maitha Al Khayyat, and Hessa Al Muhairi explores heart of storytelling
Sharjah, April 29, 2025
It was an evening of ideas and imagination at the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF 2025) on Monday, as young readers and families gathered to listen to three leading Emirati voices in children’s storytelling and a noted English author.
The power of rhythm, repetition and visual storytelling in enhancing memory and emotional connection in early readers is highlighted at an insightful dialogue at theSharjah Children’s Reading Festival
Sharjah, April 29, 2025
An author and an illustrator for children’s books explored why rhymes and vivid illustrations captivate young minds and foster a love for reading in them during the session “The Charm of Rhymes in Children’s Books” at the 16th edition of the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF 2025). The session moderated by Tasneem Zeyad, a teacher and author, had U.K-based writer Sital Gorasia Chapman and Palestinian illustrator Baraa Al Aawour discuss their works and their impact on children.
Storytelling and illustrations are the highlights at the UAEBBY pavilion where Egypt is the Guest of Honour during the ongoing Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival
Sharjah, April 28, 2025
How would it be to see the 16th edition of the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF) through the sketches of an artist? The appeal of books, workshops and cultural discussions that gives SCRF its unique flavour has been minutely captured in the canvas of Egyptian illustrator Mohamed Wahba at the UAE Board on Books for Young People (UAEBBY) pavilion where the Egyptian Board on Books for Young People (EBBY) is the Guest of Honour.
Wahba, a master of comic creation, has been drawing a sketch each day at SCRF 2025. If the first day sketch depicted His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, inaugurating SCRF, the second day sketch was a detailed study of a storytelling session at the UAEBbY pavilion, where mothers excitedly took photographs on their mobile phones while children sat on stools gazing at storybooks. The third day’s illustration was the House of Wisdom, the new icon of Sharjah’s reading culture.
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