Category: Reading and Literacy

  • Visit to Rudyard Kipling’s House – Batemans

    On wednesday, followinging on from yesterday’s blog, I visited Batemans, a National Trust property in Kent that was once the home of the Nobel Prize-winning writer, Rudyard Kipling – who wrote the Jungle book. He also wrote the Just So Stories. I loved those stories so much as a child, that I ended up re-writing…

  • School Visit to Dover

    I’ve been down to Dover this week, to visit Whitfield Aspen Primary School. It meant that I got to walk along the famous White cliffs of Dover. There were no Bluebirds because we don’t have Bluebirds in Britain! Dover is the main port to France, where the Channel Tunnel goes underground and where ferries ply…

  • On tour- Brussels – London – Suffolk

    What does an author do all day? Last week I went to the British School in Brussels then back to London for a day seminar near Euston, then off to Suffolk for the Lavenham Children’s Literary Festival then on to Ely near Cambridge to have a meeting with a potential new publisher. I was so…