Category: Reading and Literacy

  • Where’s Wally? – He was at the Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival!

    I’ve been to Cardiff twice this week, for the Children’s Literature Festival, which is great fun and superbly organised. Yesterday,a few people were waylaid on their way to my Dragon Gold storytelling and drawing session by Wally and his friends. You didn’t have to look too hard to find him as he was stopping every…

  • Dragon Gold highly commended by Tir na n-Og Prize

    I’m thrilled to announce that Dragon Gold has been Highly Commended by the Tir na n-Og Prize judging panel. You may also be interested to know that Dragon Gold is turning into a trilogy – I’ve been commissioned by Firefly to write the second book in the series, called Dragon White, which we are among…

  • 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…