Category: books
Phonics confuse slow readers
I love the English language and all its strange little ways – how it is perfectly unsuited to learning to read using an exclusive phonetic system. Take a simple word like Slow. Slow can be pronounced phonetically as Slough, like the town, or Sloe, as in the name of the fruit. If you come from…
How to Draw a Roman Gladiator Helmet
I’m getting to grips with my new series called Roman Brit, which will be published by Orchard Books early next year. Yesterday I spent the morning in the British Museum, looking for details to add to the stories, and came away with lost of fabulous new ideas. I spent some time sketching the gladiator helmet…
School Visits – What a performance!
My eye was caught by a link to a blog entitled Dealing with performance anxiety, with Dr David Roland. It got me thinking. Not being an actor, I’ve always say that I “Perform” my stories during the sessions I do in schools and libraries. I always add the ironic quote marks. I’ve had no training…
