I’d visited quite a few schools in Fleetwood and it was lovely to make my first visit to Chaucer to share my books with the Key Stage 2 pupils. My author assembly is as much an inspirational pitch as it is about reading and writing so I started off by asking the children about their…
Monday kicked off at Unity Academy with an author assembly. Despite visiting last year for a storytelling session, this was my first visit to share my books. I read an extract from Blown Away, which is one of my favourite stories in Impossible Tales. The children laughed at all the right bits which was ace.…
This was my first visit to Westcliff and I thoroughly enjoyed my author session. As I hadn’t visited before, I started off by getting the Key Stage 2 children up to speed with Impossible Tales. I shared an extract from Blown Away and the children laughed at all the right points which was a lovely…
I’ve visited St Kentigern’s quite a few times before so it was lovely to return for a couple of mornings to share Eric Appleby and write with some of the classes. Tuesday kicked off with a Key Stage 2 assembly where I introduced the children to Eric. I explained how I developed the idea from…
This was my second visit to Northfold as I’d been to share Impossible Tales last July. The children were as fantastic as ever and listened beautifully while I explained how Eric’s story came about. I think they were a bit shocked when I showed them all of the edited mauscripts. Hopefully they won’t complain the next…
The last time I visited Singleton Primary was somewhere around 1991. I was at high school and I went for a couple of weeks to get work experience. The school has changed lots since then but it is still a lovely place filled with cracking kids and fab staff. As this was my first visit…
I had seen lots of great things on Twitter about The District so when the opportunity to visit came about, I jumped at the chance. Firstly, I met Mrs McFarlane who gave me a guided tour of both libraries and the outdoor reading facilities. I was shown around the ‘story shack’ which is used by…
This was my fourth visit to Roseacre. I’d previously visited to share Impossible Tales and been there twice for storytelling sessions on behalf of Blackpool Library Service. It’s a lovely place and I always enjoy returning. Roseacre is a large school so I had to share Eric’s story twice, firstly with Year 3 and 4…
This week I received two lovely book reviews which had been completed by Charlie and Olivia. To say I was blown away would be an understatement. Charlie and Olivia had read the book as part of a school task. To hear they enjoyed the book so much made me feel so proud and excited. It’s…
I’ll never forget the day my first book, ‘Impossible Tales!’ launched in 2014. I can remember where I was, what I was doing and exactly what happened that special day. It was a landmark occasion and one which will be forever stamped in my memory. Well yesterday, I went through the whole experience once again…