12 August 2025 [11AM-12PM]
Riverside Community Centre, Station Road, Bovey Tracey TQ13 9AW
BOOK YOUR SEAT // Tickets are £2 per person; all funds go to Bovey Tracey Library
Join Bovey Tracey Library & First Draft Books for an exciting, interactive experience with Becca Rogers, author of The Girl with Gills, a new book brimming with river magic, ancient lore & adventure.
Perfect for ages 7+, Becca will introduce us to her book (and answer all your questions) before leading a fun, creative workshop where we can invent our own underwater creatures and worlds. If you like to draw, write stories or both, this one’s for you! All abilities welcome. No experience required and all materials will be provided.
Bonus: attending this event will count as an activity completed towards your Summer Book Quest!
Copies of The Girl with Gills will be available to purchase (£7.99) on the day from First Draft Books, or you can request it from the Library. Becca will hang out after the event to personalise & sign your books.
Tickets are £2 per person. All funds go to Bovey Tracey Library and help us to run more wonderful community events like this one. Thank you for your support.
This event is also part of First Draft Books’ “Summer of Local,” a celebration of the booklovers and storytellers on our doorstep. Come be a part of the fun, happening throughout August.
About The Girl with Gills
An original, middle grade fantasy debut awash with adventure. A determined heroine and a sinister villain clash to reveal river lore in a watery world of fantastical creatures and colossal challenges.
About Becca Rogers
Becca is a children’s author living in Devon. She grew up in the countryside, an avid reader in a house full of folk music and books. After many years in London – a fundraising manager by day, writer by night – she now lives by a tidal estuary, where she likes to mudlark, with her husband, two children and a very silly dog called Luna.