UK children’s TV channel CBBC will be calling on bookworms to set an impressively wordy world record this weekend in Birmingham.
The kid’s station is hoping to take the title for Most contributions to a text collage during the CBBC Live: Awesome Authors event which is set to take place in Centenary Square and the Library of Birmingham.
Guided by Ben Shires, presenter of record-breaking show Officially Amazing, visitors will be able to help fill up a huge wall with thousands of individual words.
Participants will be able to look through children’s books, dictionaries and celebrities’ chosen words for inspiration before making their own contribution to the record attempt by writing their word of choice on the wall themselves.
Over the course of the weekend the wall, which will feature in the CBBC HQ zone tent, is set to be transformed from a blank canvas to a colourful collage of words, alongside pictures of authors and their favourite word labels. In order to set the record, participants will need to have contributed 10,000 individual words to the collage.
Stars from some of CBBC’s most popular shows will be appearing at the two day event with live broadcasts from Blue Peter, Newsround and CBBC HQ over the weekend. Sam and Mark (Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes) and Paddy Wilde (Got What It Takes) will also be entertaining the crowds live on stage.
Awesome Authors aims to get children excited about reading, creative writing and storytelling, and will see CBBC presenters including Hacker T Dog, (pictured above), Karim and Lauren joined at the event by best-loved" authors including Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Alex T Smith, Jeremy Strong and Lucy Hawking.
Admission to the event is free. More information about the event can be found here.
