Make sure to head down to the Cheltenham Children's Library on this Friday morning in late April. Make most of the last few days of the Easter holidays with a reading and signing of books with the author of both 'My Teacher's a Robot!' and 'My Teacher's a Spy!'. Are your teachers mysterious? Are your teachers definitely up to something? Do you really know who your teacher is? It always creates a bit of a stir when a new teacher starts school, especially when that teacher is young and handsome, like Mr Gunning. But why does he have an expensive car? And is he really who he seems? Chloe, Jessica, Kelly and Andrew think not and when Andrew claims he is sure Mr Gunning is a spy the gang just have to find out if that is the case. In a crime thriller for young readers Phil Barnes creates in My Teacher's a Spy! four children who start out simply trying to find out if their suspicions are true but who rapidly discover that the murky waters of intrigue are deeper than they thought. And when Andrew goes missing the girls must pull together, fight their tears and continue their detective course as one by one they, too, succumb to the criminal ... whoever he or she is.

Listen up children, as this Friday you'll get to meet the brilliant author Sue Batten. She has just written 'Colin and Carrie Stories'. Sit down and marvel as this is something that you won't want to miss. When Colin the car finds out that his family are buying a caravan... he's horrified! How will he cope with pulling it along the road on long journeys? But everything changes when he meets Carrie, his warm, funny, and friendly new companion. Join them and their family as they hit the road for a camping trip, meeting a fun cast of trucks, vans and cars along the way!

Join the author, Trevor Wrenn, at Gerrards Cross Community Library this month when he talks about his captivating romance novel, 'Love Hurts'. Don't miss out on your chance to meet the author!

Valerie Albrecht, author of 'The Story Behind the Story' is at the Tilba Festival to talk about her book, a gripping biography of a Navajo medicine man. Native American traditions are rich and enigmatic to many, with populations sadly dwindling and protectiveness over the culture that remains. In this book, Valerie Albrecht, Australian Biographer of Indigenous Peoples, writes the life, work and world views of Elroy Begay, a Navajo Medicine Man who unexpectedly invited her to do so. The telling and scripting spread over four years of meetings and conversations, living within his family and community on Chinle Reservation Arizona, attending and assisting his ceremonies and researching. Included is knowledge on the Navajo Creation story; time honoured traditional medicine and ceremonial practices which are permissible to be written; information on reservation family life and Elroy's philosophical perspectives. As well, Albrecht shares her processing of what proved to be an intensely paradigm shifting experience for both herself and Elroy. Clearly interwoven through-out, is Elroy's creed and core principle of acceptance: acceptance of your history, your culture, yourself and your uniqueness, and for the ‘hand' you have been dealt - Elroy is a paraplegic medicine man living, practising and being cared for between two ways of life and two sets of health conventions. He tells The Story Behind the Story to preserve it and to bring hope and pride for his people.

Children of the Child's Play Creche, Montessori and Day Care in Newbridge will have the wonderful opportunity to meet the brilliant Amanda Kehoe who will be reading from her book 'TJ and his Wheelable Chair'. Make sure you do not miss this incredible opportunity. TJ cannot walk or talk, but he still loves to listen and play with his friends. Join him as he shows that disabilities are no barrier to a happy and fulfilling life...

Children of the Play Pre-school at Educate Together in Kildare Town will have the wonderful opportunity to meet the brilliant Amanda Kehoe who will be reading from her book 'TJ and his Wheelable Chair'. Make sure you do not miss this opportunity. TJ cannot walk or talk, but he still loves to listen and play with his friends. Join him as he shows that disabilities are no barrier to a happy and fulfilling life...

'Pants Optional' is the tale of one mother from Iowa who tells an amazing tale about dating, her childhood and more with her book. Now is the chance to meet the woman who wrote it all, Carol L. Steingreaber. Have your chance to meet her at his parenting class series. In her first autobiography, Pants Optional, Carol Steingreaber offers a hilarious, unrestricted insight into her life thus far in Iowa, USA. The reader is a privileged passenger on the journey, invited to buckle up for the ride as Carol shares her stories from the sibling squabbles of childhood, to cringeworthy dating moments, marriage and various stages of motherhood. Her witty, "tell-it-straight" writing style conjures up images you can't help but laugh at, often accompanied by photos that speak a thousand (usually comical) words. Carol provides the reader with "UNconventional tips" on a whole range of themes such as housework and hospitals, illness and injury, Nerf guns and nudity, safety concerns and sex, friendship, faith and a great many more. Moments of eternal embarrassment are interspersed with flashes of comic/parenting genius, and every reader will find a nugget or three (or twenty!) to inspire them. A cracking read, and highly recommended.

Donna L. Jones will be signing books at the stunning Swansea Grand Theatre, where these people know better the power of language, and with 'The Rise of Global', read into how powerful language can actually become. "ONE Language, ONE Version, ONE Vision;" "ONE Global Law - accept it or be Labelled!" Global - "super or killer language"? Apollos Popov has no doubt. He fears that Global will spread throughout the planet, like a disease eventually killing all Mother Tongues. He believes the spread of Global will usher in a new age of language superiority; a return to just one spoken tongue as in the days before Babel. He is convinced that the consequences for all native languages would be catastrophic. One man is responsible. The Rise of Global tells the story of that one man's obsession to eradicate his true identity and replace it with a new one; one that will afford him power and status, one that will give him a new name - a name that all citizens will recognise as THE LAW...