Tag: People
Why Where the Wild things Are is my Favourite Children’s Book
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, was a hugely influential book for me. When I first encountered it in the college library in the early 1980s I was bowled over. In this book, I could see how all my various talents might come together. That was the day I realised there was a…
School Libraries and Librarians – The Beating Heart of the School
The recent report by the Libraries all party parliamentary group came to the conclusion that school libraries and school librarians are a good thing. I tweeted the following: If you want to raise literacy standards in schools, isn’t a school library and a librarian who knows about books an obvious place to start? I’ve been…
How to use a sketchbook
I did a lot of sketching during my recent trip to Amsterdam. I had a wonderful time. Talking with my friends in the evening, as we discussed what we’d seen that day, I was drawing away happily when I realised that everyone was watching, but they were involved in the drawing and the conversation continued…
