Category: School & Library Visits

  • World Book Day – Author Events

    World Book Day is not far away. If you were thinking of asking an author to visit your school this term, then now is the time to start making contact. Authors get booked up for World Book Day itself quite quickly, so you may want to think about arranging your event during the week of…

  • If you write books, then why are you here?

    I was in Liverpool this week, as part of the Liverpool children’s Festival of Reading. Several primary schools came to Gateacre School, to their fabulous theatre, where I told them about Dragon Gold and Walker, The boy who can talk to dogs. I had one new question asked of me. I usually get variations on…

  • 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…