Tag: school visit

  • What do teachers want from an author visit?

    What do teachers want from an author visit?

    What do teachers want from a school visit? I’ve been visiting schools for years now, telling stories, sharing my writing strategies, showing how to draw things and, I hope, inspiring the odd child here and there. I’ve never been a teacher. I’ve not trained as a teacher. In staff room conversations, it’s clear that many…

  • World Book Day and School Author Visits

    World Book Day and School Author Visits

    Every year I get requests to visit schools for World Book Day. Every year I get requests the week before when someone realises they were meant to organise something for World Book Day! I know the same often happens to other authors too. So, I thought I’d write this a memory jogger. Next year World…

  • Little Horrors!

    I was childishly pleased when I came up with the series title, Little Horrors. They’re horror stories for small children, whom we often call little horrors themselves. Actually there’s no horror in them at all, just the suggestion. They are meant to be funny with moments of doubt… Shiver with fear.. shake with laughter, as…