Adventuremice at The Grove School, Totnes

Big thanks to The Grove primary school in Totnes for hosting our Reeve & McIntyre Adventuremice visit today! Here's teacher Mrs John (Shanaz John) who looked after us (thanks, Shanaz!), and drew this rather splendid picture of Pedro along with us. My co-author Philip Reeve took this picture of me warming up my drawing skills with a picture of Fledermaus on the flipchart before we started the all-school assembly. If any of the children (or staff, or parents) would like to learn how to draw more characters, check out our Adventuremice.com website, or my Jabberworks website! Philip and I presented award certificates to children who had been shortlisted for the BBC 500 Words writing competition, and to children who had won a school-wide writing competition. Huge congratulations to all the winners, and to everyone who took part! I was a bit rubbish at taking photos this time, this is the only picture I got this morning, of a staff lounge biscuit jar. ...But look at it, what a classic. Thanks to everyone who drew along with us, and to Nigel and Claire at Totnes's local East Gate Bookshop for supplying so many books for us to sign. We hope the children enjoy them! We popped by the shop after lunch to sign more books, so if anyone missed out this morning, they can stop in and pick some up.