Dates for next year's Isle of Wight Story Festival have been announced following a record-breaking February half-term event.
The 2024 instalment will take place between February 15 and 17 at Quay Arts.
This year's festival celebrated stories of all kinds with authors, theatre, music, illustrators and hands-on workshops.
Families queued out the doors of Quay Arts and into the streets while waiting to get books signed by the likes of Horrible Histories star Simon Farnaby and author/illustrator Laura Ellen Anderson.
“It’s a fantastic event - we look forward to it every year,” said festival goer Helen Smith. “Big thanks to the organisers and volunteers that make it happen.”
The annual festival, now in its fourth year, is well established with families of primary aged children, but this year it ran an additional day aimed at teenagers.
IW Story Festival organiser Sue Bailey said:
“We are so pleased that at this year’s festival we not only had a lot of fun, but also heard some very important messages about identity and inclusivity.”
Themes of inclusion continued on the Friday and Saturday of the festival with sessions from disability rights campaigner and former CBeebies presenter Cerrie Burnell, as well as Gareth Peter, who shared his book My Daddies.
In another innovation this year, the Quay Arts cafe hosted local musicians who entertained the crowds while they waited to have their books signed.
Those on stage included Simon Whitworth, Black Daniels, Doug Alldred, The Solar Escape, JC Grimshaw and Platform One artists Amy Jolliffe and Ruby Bodenham.
Ticket and line-up details for the IW Story Festival 2024 will be announced later this year.