Tag: reading

  • Do children need to learn to read anymore?

    I obviously think learning to read is a great idea. I earn my living writing children’s books. Children’s hard labour keeps me busy with honest toil. I wouldn’t want children to grow up without recourse to the wonderful worlds of fantasy that I was able to explore in my youth. Narnia was not just a collection…

  • Dragon Gold highly commended by Tir na n-Og Prize

    I’m thrilled to announce that Dragon Gold has been Highly Commended by the Tir na n-Og Prize judging panel. You may also be interested to know that Dragon Gold is turning into a trilogy – I’ve been commissioned by Firefly to write the second book in the series, called Dragon White, which we are among…

  • Reading For Pleasure

    Hooray! The DoE report – Reading: the next steps – gives official recognition to the idea that reading books is a good thing and that reading books matters. Many people have always known this. While every method available should be used to start children decoding those squiggles, to become confident decoders of text and deconstructers of grammar, it is…