Category: School & Library Visits

  • Dark Claw Drawings

    Having checked that it’s okay to post work done by year five of Whitchurch School, where I’m working on an extended writing project, I can now upload some of the drawing they did after I showed them how to draw Dark Claw. I suppose it would be interesting to find a control group and get…

  • YouTube – What a Waste

    I spent the morning with my year five class at Whitchurch School, yesterday (notice that “my” class!). We tried to get this blog up on the whiteboard, but wordpress.com is blocked at county level – so is YouTube. Beth, the year five teacher, told me they can’t even access BBC wildlife videos. We all know…

  • Roughs and Plans – Rubbish or Gold Dust?

    I became an author in a haphazard way. I was an illustrator first, but was encouraged to write by my editors. It was a hit or miss process. I never wanted to question it incase I broke whatever it was that I’d got working. Then came the National Literacy Strategy and people started to ask…