Category: Reading and Literacy
Where Did The Ampersand Originate?
The New Yorker have just posted this video from “The Comma Queen” telling us all about where the ampersand came from. Developed from the Latin et (“and”), the ampersand, formerly the twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet, is a character with a cult following among students of typography. Well, did you know all that?
How to draw a Robo Kat for Dark Claw
This video shows how to draw a Robo Kat from my book series, Dark Claw, which is a sort of Star Wars epic with Cats and mice – or Kats and Muss – Muss are anything from Mice and rats and hamsters to chinchillas! You can enjoy me reading the animated version of the story…
Ban Exclamation Marks!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought we were in an age of austerity and that the government were trying to save money, cutting back everywhere! But not at the Department of Education! It seems they are flowing with funds and are desperately thinking up wheezes to justify their salaries! Someone at the D of E, with a cushy job…