Tag: writing
Dragon Gold – my longest book
I have been so busy this year, I seem to have quite forgotten to add a blog post about my latest book, Dragon Gold. At 153 pages, this is the longest book I’ve ever written and one of the very first published by Wales’ very first children’s book publisher – Firefly Press. Harri would like…
How to invent stories and characters
Recently I visited the Hereford Cathedral Choir School and spent the afternoon with Year 3 – who are mostly 8 years old – showing them how I come up with ideas for stories and characters. I devised two character’s based on a couple of children who kindly posed for me in their school uniforms. I…
What is reading for?
Currently, there is a lively debate about how children should learn to read. It seems to me that both sides of the debate share the same concern – they all agree that children should become fluent readers, able to both read and understand the written word. To me, the debate has come about through the…
