Tag: School & Library Visits

  • 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…

  • The Biggest Book Show on Earth! – Rhyl

    Last week I went up to Rhyl, on the North Wales coast, to take part in the The Biggest Book Show on Earth There were five of us authors taking the stage for a quarter of an hour each, on the theme of Why I Can’t Live Without Books.  Jonny Duddle, Jon Mayhew,, Heather Dyer were…

  • Denbighshire Libraries Book Week

    I had a wonderful time in Denbighshire last week, meeting old friends in the Libraries. I was reading my new book, Dragon Gold, to schools that came to see me in Denbigh, Ruthin and Rhyl Libraries. My trip also gave me the opportunity to pop into Ysgol Bro Cinmeirch, a Welsh Language medium school where…