Category: books
Reading For Pleasure
Hooray! The DoE report – Reading: the next steps – gives official recognition to the idea that reading books is a good thing and that reading books matters. Many people have always known this. While every method available should be used to start children decoding those squiggles, to become confident decoders of text and deconstructers of grammar, it is…
The Biggest Book Show on Earth! – Rhyl
Last week I went up to Rhyl, on the North Wales coast, to take part in the The Biggest Book Show on Earth There were five of us authors taking the stage for a quarter of an hour each, on the theme of Why I Can’t Live Without Books. Jonny Duddle, Jon Mayhew,, Heather Dyer were…
Creating New Worlds
Some of you may be aware of my unfolding Shoowaii project. I imagine, if you’ve been following the videos, that its all a bit confusing. But not for me! Shoowaii is an environment that has it’s own internal logic, where I can play with ideas and stories to my heart’s content, all within a recognisable…