Children design bookmark for prince (From Salisbury Journal)

Children design bookmark for prince

11:04am Wednesday 12th November 2008 in News By Morwenna Blake

CHILDREN at a Salisbury school have been hard at work coming up with an image for a bookmark which is going out alongside a book to honour the Prince of Wales on his 60th birthday.

The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts invited children from Sarum St Paul’s Primary School to design the back of the bookmark which will go out alongside The Birthday Book in honour of the prince’s birthday, which is tomorrow.

The chosen design was created by Sarum St Paul’s pupil, Hattie. Their design will make up the back of the bookmark, the front of which features the cover illustration of The Birthday Book by Quentin Blake.

Fifteen other designs have been created by some of the schools that Children & the Arts help across the UK which will also be made into bookmarks.

The Birthday Book, edited by Michael Morpurgo and Quentin Blake, two of Children & the Arts’ long standing ambassadors, is a treasury of birthday themed stories from over 50 of the UK’s finest authors and illustrators including Philip Pullman, JK Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Morpurgo, Quentin Blake, Philip Ardagh, Eoin Colfer, Anne Fine, Eleanor Updale, Posy Simmonds and Axel Scheffler.

Published by Random House on November 6 the book will help raise money for Children & the Arts, which works to provide access to the arts for children who would otherwise not have the opportunity.

The bookmarks will be distributed to independent bookshops and libraries across the UK and copies of The Birthday Book are on sale in bookshops and online.

Children from Sarum St Paul’s Primary School are involved in The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts flagship programme, Start. Start provides funding and support to arts venues to enable them to create partnerships with selected primary and secondary schools in their local area, introducing children who would otherwise not have the opportunity to the very best of the arts.