Tag: reading

  • Monster Boy – Siren Spell – let Shoo read you the story!

    I’ve been so busy recently, that I’ve not been posting my latest Drawing School Videos. Anyway, to celebrate the publishing of the last Monster Boy books in paperback, here is a video of me reading the complete story of Monster Boy – Siren’s Spell. You can buy copies here amazon.

  • Windwhistle Primary School Library Opening

    [slideshow] I had a brilliant day today. Jenny Harpur, Deputy Head of the wonderfully named Windwhistle Primary School in Weston Super, Mare invited me to officially open the new school library which she has been planning and arranging and building and stocking and getting ready over the last two or three years. I got the…

  • Why bother reading books or keeping libraries?

    I just caught the end of an interview with Michael Rosen on breakfast TV this morning. He was asked why we should bother to read books now that reading is going over to Kindles and iPads. He hesitated a moment, the same way I hesitated last week when asked for a quote by the Hereford…