Tag Archives: schools
making books at drayton park school
Today was the last of four day-long workshops I did for the TEXT Islington project, getting kids to make books. My big find recently has been those little A5 cardboard placards you get in Deptford pound shops, they’re the perfect … Continue reading
full day at school
This event season has been amazing, but I’m starting to get awfully tired. I was so wiped out last night, getting ready to leave early this morning for an all-day school workshop and having to cycle over in the dead … Continue reading
today we made books! lots of books!
The strangest thing happened this morning. I set off from home very early to get to Thornhill Primary School in Islington, and I was feeling terribly nervous. The longest I’d ever spend in front of one group of children was … Continue reading
costume and knitting madness!
Are these Mr Bump costumes amazing or what?! This morning I got to judge the Book Week costume parade at James Allen’s Prep School in Dulwich, and wow, did they have some fabulous outfits. Among them you can see the … Continue reading
vern vs mo-bot!
Today Neill Cameron, Garen Ewing and I met up with Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival coordinator Alex Milway to do a festival promo event at Kingswood Primary School in Gipsy Hill, southeast London. Garen and Alex did their thing in … Continue reading
stratford-upon-avon shenanigans
I’ve never been so shocked, when we were in Stratford-upon-Avon, our book’s publicist, Alex Richardson, stole a sheep! She ran right down the road with it, tucked under her arm. After we spent a night in the Stratford-upon-Avon house of … Continue reading
space princess hits leicester!
On Sunday night, Alex Richardson (my fab Scholastic publicist) and I took the train to Leicester to met up with fellow maker of book magic Lizzie Finlay. We had an excellent curry dinner with two comics friends, Selina Lock and … Continue reading
thank you, bishop’s stortford!
Yesterday I went up to Bishop’s Stortford for their first Children’s Book Festival and accepted the Picture Book Award for Morris the Mankiest Monster from Britain’s Children’s Laureate and children’s book creator Anthony Browne. Hurrah! One of the teachers had … Continue reading
lots of verns!
I got such a kick out of seeing loads of different ways people drew Vern the sheep. (You can see how to draw Vern and Lettuce here.) Some of the drawings remind me of those antique paintings of bulls or … Continue reading
comics in the post!
Thanks so much to the year six girls at James Allen’s Preparatory School! I got the most amazing packet in the post, full of beautiful letters with comics and drawings. I’ll post some of the great comics here, and try … Continue reading
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