Category: Reading and Literacy

  • Dragon Gold – my longest book

    Dragon Gold – my longest book

    I have been so busy this year, I seem to have quite forgotten to add a blog post about my latest book, Dragon Gold. At 153 pages, this is the longest book I’ve ever written and one of the very first published by Wales’ very first children’s book publisher – Firefly Press. Harri would like…

  • How to draw a Dragon Real Easy

    How to draw a Dragon Real Easy

    Harri would like to know what it feels like to win, just once. Ryan always wins everything. Harri has no chance. Until someone walks into his mum’s shop. Someone almost invisible! What would you do if your school had a competition to make a dragon – and you had a dragon? A real, fire-breathing very…

  • Want to improve your kids’ writing? Let them draw

    I so loved this article and agree with everything it says, I wanted to republish it as I am allowed to. Many thanks to Misty Adoniou. Want to improve your kids’ writing? Let them draw By Misty Adoniou, University of Canberra We might see drawing as a bit of fun, but the contribution to learning…