Category: School & Library Visits

  • Questions for a Children’s Author

    I visited St Paul’s CofE Primary School in Gloucester last week and some of the children still had questions to ask when our time was up. I asked their teacher Mrs Bevan, to send me an email with the questions I hadn’t answered, and promised to make a video for her and her class 5.…

  • Carnegie Libraries – and the Tipton Slasher!

    This week I have been in Sandwell, west of Birmingham, in the West Midlands. Also known as the Black Country, because it was the heart of the industrial revolution with foundries and smoke everywhere, making stuff for the British Empire. Several of the libraries are Carnegie Libraries. Andrew Carnegie was once the richest man in…

  • A Storytelling Trip to Shetland

    I’ve spent the last few days in Shetland, telling stories and showing how to draw Vikings and Space stuff as part of Bookweek Scotland organised by the wonderful Scottish Book Trust and Shetland Libraries. I had a great time in a beautiful place thanks to Margie, whoo looked after me so well, ferrying me from schools to the…