The Book Bus will have a stand at this years Hay Festival, Wales.

The Hay Festival is a gathering of writers, comedians, musicians and like minded individuals "...that have the capacity to change our lives, to share new visions of the world, and to do that incredibly sexy thing – to renew our sense of wonder."

This years line-up includes:-

• Christy Moore
• Bill Bryson
• Roddy Doyle
• Orquesta Buena VistaSocial Club
• Brian May & Elena Vidal
• Hilary Mantel
• Philip Pullman
• Tom Stoppard
• and more to come...

The Hay Festival takes place from Thursday 27 May to Sunday 6 June 2010.

More details can be found on the Hay Festival website (link opens in new window).

Quentin Blake's marvellous artwork has now been applied to our Ecuador Book Bus in preparation for the launch in January.

The Bus will begin operations in the Amazon Jungle visiting schools and communities spreading the joy of reading and story-telling.

Read more about the Book Bus in Ecuador.

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Bask in the goodness of giving whilst battling it out to bag something desirable!

Buy a raffle ticket or two for your chance to win an Apple MacBook or a £500 TopShop voucher.

Proceeds go towards the Book Bus Foundation… to participate take a look at  www.thebookbus.raffle.it

For the second year running, the Book Bus Foundation came away with first prize for the Best Small Stand at the forum3 charity and volunteer event.

Thanks to everyone who came along to see us and make it such an enjoyable show. A big thank you also to Jig (again!) and his wonderful model of the bus and our volunteer stand crew of Jean Ashbury, Sarah Jordan and Jackie Miller.

Will we make it 3 years in a row in 2010?

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The Book Bus project is spreading its wings and crossing the Atlantic to set up the Book Bus in Ecuador. We are planning to start our Book Bus project in Ecuador in November 2009 in the coastal fishing village of Puerto Lopez.

Working in a new continent, a new country and in a new language will bring on all sorts of new challenges but the experience we have gained in Africa coupled with VentureCo’s 20+ years of operational experience in South America gives our New World project every chance of success.

We have developed the Book Bus Ecuador project in association with BISEE Books and will operate in country with project partners VentureCo and Ecuador Tierra Viva. The Book Bus foundation is grateful to the Cheltenham Ladies’ College whose generous donation this year has contributed greatly to the initiation of our Ecuador project.

Read more about our Ecuador Project