Tag: School & Library Visits

  • Questions for a Children’s Author

    I visited St Paul’s CofE Primary School in Gloucester last week and some of the children still had questions to ask when our time was up. I asked their teacher Mrs Bevan, to send me an email with the questions I hadn’t answered, and promised to make a video for her and her class 5.…

  • Carnegie Libraries – and the Tipton Slasher!

    This week I have been in Sandwell, west of Birmingham, in the West Midlands. Also known as the Black Country, because it was the heart of the industrial revolution with foundries and smoke everywhere, making stuff for the British Empire. Several of the libraries are Carnegie Libraries. Andrew Carnegie was once the richest man in…

  • Inglefield House School Visit

    I had a great day, yesterday at Inglefield House School in Monmouth. They were running out of space to the library had to go and be turned into a classroom. Oh no! No Library. While I was drawing with the year 3s, a huge, red, London bus arrived and parked up outside the front door.…