Category: School & Library Visits

  • Stand Up For Middle Grade Books – or Tweens?

    Theres a great post on the ReadingZone.com called: Why children’s books needs an ‘MGLC’ First, what is MGLC? The MG stands for Middle Grade and LC stands for Literary Convention. This comes about because there has been a successful YALC this weekend – YA stands for Young Adult. The glamour, effort – and prizes – in children’s…

  • Drawing Lone Dogs with Yr 5 at Talbot Heath School

    I did a lot of drawing with Talbot Heath School last week. When it was Year 5’s turn, they had been working on a poem called Lone Dog by Irene Rutherford Mcleod. We discussed how they imagined the dog and they had quite a wolfish image in mind, so that’s what we drew. I didn’t…

  • The Biggest Book Show on Earth! – Rhyl

    Last week I went up to Rhyl, on the North Wales coast, to take part in the The Biggest Book Show on Earth There were five of us authors taking the stage for a quarter of an hour each, on the theme of Why I Can’t Live Without Books.  Jonny Duddle, Jon Mayhew,, Heather Dyer were…