Join our Monster Trail
Hello Stratford Explorer!
Six monsters have escaped from the Monster’s Funfair at Discover Children’s Story Centre and are hiding across Stratford town centre! We need your help to find them all and get them back in time for the funfair show.
Ready for your adventure?
Download your monster map and join the adventure or pick it up at the Discovery Children’s Story Centre or the Mary Ward Centre.
Download HereMonster Funfair
Roll up, roll up…
This immersive family adventure takes you through a fantastical circus tent and into the woods. In amongst the trees you’ll find an amazing, marvellous, EXTRAORDINARY… Monster Funfair!
Built entirely by monsters, our new immersive exhibition features all sorts of weird and wonderful fairground attractions – a dinosaur laser maze, a beastly fun house, mini bumble-bear bumper cars, a rollercoaster slide and lots lots more.
Created with the award-winning Nadia Shireen, this magical world also has a fairground mystery to solve – just who has stolen ALL the candyfloss?
Monster Funfair features characters from Nadia’s books, including Billy and Fatcat, The Bumblebear, the Grimwood series and more.
Book now
About Nadia Shireen
Nadia Shireen has been making picture books since 2010, when her debut Good Little Wolf burst onto the scene and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Since then, she’s published many more books including Barbara Throws A Wobbler, Billy and the Beast, The Cow Who Fell To Earth and Geoffrey Gets the Jitters. In 2017, The Bumblebear was distributed to over 700,000 children as part of Booktrusts’s Time To Read campaign. Her anarchic series for older readers, Grimwood, was a World Book Day title in 2022 and has since taken the playgrounds of the nation by storm. Nadia has won the UKLA book prize twice, and lost many others (though she still likes to be nominated.) She lives in Brighton.
Our Partners
- Discover Children’s Story Centre – the UK’s first Story Centre for children aged 0-11 and their families.
- Mary Ward – an esteemed adult education college, offering courses from 19 to 90 years old.
- The Source – a brand new arts venue in Stratford’s up-and-coming cultural quarter.
- Highcastle Estates – an estate agent that help our clients in every aspect of property.
- Stratford East – a producing theatre, built in 1884, in the heart of East London.
- i Fratelli – is a traditional Fish and Chip Shop incorporating Italian Pizza al Taglio.