16/07/2016 Newsround

Good morning - I'm Jenny and a huge welcome from Birmingham Library.

This weekend we're celebrating everything that's awesome

about authors, brilliant about books and wicked about words.

This is Europe's largest public library.

And this weekend, some of the UK's best known and best loved authors

Jacqueline Wilson, Alex T Smith, Lucy Hawking, just to name a few!

Thousands of kids will have the chance to get

excited about reading, writing and storytelling.

Some of your favourite CBBC shows will be here too,

So get ready for one awesome weekend!

I'm on the balcony of the library - it's a pretty awesome

You can see there are already hundreds of people

Waiting for them - the Blue Peter stage where they're

But of course it's all about the authors this weekend.

I've got one of them right here - Nicola Davies, author

You're one of 29 authors here this weekend.

Stories are really important, stories or how we explain the world

to ourselves and other people and through reading stories, we can find

our own voice as writers and that is really important for my readers to

find their voice as a writer. You have written 50 books now. A lot of

those are about wildlife, why did you decide to write about animals? I

was always fascinated with animals and children seem to have an

absolutely innate fascination for animals as well. I love working with

live audiences are talking to them about animals and hearing their

questions about the natural world. You're doing that today, Anju? I am.

If you had to pick one animal, what would it be? It is so hard but I

have to pick a different animal every time I am asked so today it is

a. They need friends, they are the wild. People just don't know about

them. We will hear from you later on today.