December 7, 2008: Lauren Child Book Signing

Lauren Child, best-selling author of the Bafta award winning characters Charlie and Lola signed a new UNESCO edition of her book, “That Pesky Rat”, a funny and touching tale of a street rat searching for a happy home.

All profits from sales of the book went to UNESCO’s Programme for the Education of Children in Need, helping street children, and children living in poverty throughout the world, have a brighter future.

For Child’s legions of fans there were Pesky Rat themed colouring activities as well as slide projections in store showing images of the children that UNESCO are helping. Customers were treated to a fifteen percent discount throughout the store whilst Couverture & The Garbstore donated fifteen percent of all the day’s sales to the UNESCO charity.