Tag: author visit
What do teachers want from an author visit?
What do teachers want from a school visit? I’ve been visiting schools for years now, telling stories, sharing my writing strategies, showing how to draw things and, I hope, inspiring the odd child here and there. I’ve never been a teacher. I’ve not trained as a teacher. In staff room conversations, it’s clear that many…
World Book Day and School Author Visits
Every year I get requests to visit schools for World Book Day. Every year I get requests the week before when someone realises they were meant to organise something for World Book Day! I know the same often happens to other authors too. So, I thought I’d write this a memory jogger. Next year World…