Category: books
The British Family Fayre
http://youtu.be/eC1quCBDx9Y I will be at the British Family Fayre in Westerham Kent this weekend Map and Visit Details Here Check out my video of last year’s event to see how much fun it’s going to be! I’ll be telling stories and showing how to draw stuff with Derwent Aquatones and Watercolour Pencils Why not come…
Why Where the Wild things Are is my Favourite Children’s Book
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, was a hugely influential book for me. When I first encountered it in the college library in the early 1980s I was bowled over. In this book, I could see how all my various talents might come together. That was the day I realised there was a…
School Libraries and Librarians – The Beating Heart of the School
The recent report by the Libraries all party parliamentary group came to the conclusion that school libraries and school librarians are a good thing. I tweeted the following: If you want to raise literacy standards in schools, isn’t a school library and a librarian who knows about books an obvious place to start? I’ve been…
