Creating Animal Detectives A lemur? A leopard? Or maybe a pig? Kids at two Hillingdon libraries pondered on their favourite animals to turn into… Read More »Creating Animal Detectives
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The Week Junior Awards Shortlisting The first book in the Major and Mynah series was one of six titles shortlisted for Book of the… Read More »The Week Junior Awards Shortlisting
The Week Junior Awards Shortlisting
Lisburn bookworms Chatter about Major and Mynah This wonderful display was created by the eight children who belong to Lisburn Library’s Chatterbooks club. They… Read More »Lisburn bookworms Chatter about Major and Mynah
Lisburn bookworms Chatter about Major and Mynah
What a puzzle! Code-breaking skills were on display when Callie, Grace and Bo joined in with Maths Week at Ravenscourt Park Prep School in… Read More »What a puzzle!
What a puzzle!
School visits. Major and Mynah’s second adventure got off to a flying start with author visits to five schools in South Wales. Operation Raven… Read More »Welsh schools launch Operation Raven
Welsh schools launch Operation Raven
Sleuthing. Cracking secret codes was the challenge for my young audience when I took to the stage at Ickenham Theatre, London. The event was… Read More »On Stage with S.P.U.D.
On Stage with S.P.U.D.
Story-telling. The BBC has chosen As Quiet As A Mouse as its lunchtime story. They broadcast Edgar and Ruby’s story on Cbeebies. Twitter Instagram Envelope
Edgar and Ruby star on TV!
Literary festival. What is a rainmaker… when it’s not actually a rainmaker? This puzzle and many others were solved during my workshops at Herne… Read More »Stepping into Stories
Stepping into Stories
Literary festival. C’era una volt ail future – ‘Once Upon a Time in the Future’ was the theme of Librinfesta. The festival of literature… Read More »Ciao Librinfesta!