Popular children’s author Margaret Ryan visits Manchester for a storytelling event in the children’s department at Waterstone’s bookshop. She is one of Scotland’s most prolific and imaginative writers for young people. Formerly a teacher, she loves meeting her readers and is well known for her lively storytelling sessions in schools, libraries and festivals. She has written many popular books and series for young children, including The Littlest Dragon and Airy Fairy books. She won the Scottish Arts Council Award for The Queen’s Birthday Hat, and Roodica the Rude and the Famous Flea Trick was one of the first books to be selected in 2011 for the Richard and Judy Children’s Book Club.