Mar. 23rd, 2023 at 10:39 PM
New Library at Yeoford Community Primary School!
The next leg of our Reeve & McIntyre Adventuremice Southwest Tour took us to The Bookery in Crediton, a bookshop where Philip and I are both Patrons. Cathie Holden met us there and whizzed us off to Yeoford Community Primary School to open their brand-new library! It's a very small school - sixty-something children - but a group of parents got together and helped turn a storage room into a lovely reading space, with assistance from The Bookery in stocking it with their recommended bundles of Top Titles.
Philip and I cut the ribbon and, I suspect the journalist who was there got better pictures, with posed children, but you can get the gist! We're so glad Yeoford children will have this dedicated reading space.
We presented our new book to them, Adventuremice: Otter Chaos, and taught then how to draw Pedro. Then they helped us come up with weird and wonderful ideas for invented islands! Here's the island that sprang up on Philip's watch, Silly Flower Island:
And my suggestion-providers came up with the Cheesy-Crab Island of BAM. (You can get to Silly Flower Island by hopping into the whirlpool below.)
Even though it wasn't part of the activity, I was pleased to see that a lot of the children drew islands along with us, and it was fun to see those at the end!
Thank you for drawing with us, Yeoford Primary!
For lunch, Cathy and Dee Lalljee took us to the amazing Baobab Café and Lebanese owner Eran Hovav served us up some real delights. Thank you, Eran!
We made a second school visit to Haywards Primary School, but they'd adopted a new safeguarding policy that meant they tried to confiscate our phones before we'd even gone in, and there was no way we were going to get a single photo of anything. Anyway, it was a good visit, but I don't have any pictures to share.
Edit: A single photos has surfaced! I think Cathie got permission to take this one:
When we got back to the bookshop for the final public signing, writer-illustrator Claire Lewis had brought in these gorgeous Adventuremice cakes from the bakery just down the road. And there was a big Adventuremice display in the window!
Huge thanks to schools and The Bookery team for looking after us today, and another ENORMOUS thanks goes to the anonymous sponsor (a former publishing person) who donated enough money for ALL the children to take home a free signed copy of Adventuremice: Otter Chaos! She is the real star here; every single child, regardless of their means, was able to have their own book. Which was absolutely amazing, and incredible to see all their faces light up when Cathie told them about it. Thank you, thank you!!!
Philip and I cut the ribbon and, I suspect the journalist who was there got better pictures, with posed children, but you can get the gist! We're so glad Yeoford children will have this dedicated reading space.
We presented our new book to them, Adventuremice: Otter Chaos, and taught then how to draw Pedro. Then they helped us come up with weird and wonderful ideas for invented islands! Here's the island that sprang up on Philip's watch, Silly Flower Island:
And my suggestion-providers came up with the Cheesy-Crab Island of BAM. (You can get to Silly Flower Island by hopping into the whirlpool below.)
Even though it wasn't part of the activity, I was pleased to see that a lot of the children drew islands along with us, and it was fun to see those at the end!
Thank you for drawing with us, Yeoford Primary!
For lunch, Cathy and Dee Lalljee took us to the amazing Baobab Café and Lebanese owner Eran Hovav served us up some real delights. Thank you, Eran!
We made a second school visit to Haywards Primary School, but they'd adopted a new safeguarding policy that meant they tried to confiscate our phones before we'd even gone in, and there was no way we were going to get a single photo of anything. Anyway, it was a good visit, but I don't have any pictures to share.
Edit: A single photos has surfaced! I think Cathie got permission to take this one:
When we got back to the bookshop for the final public signing, writer-illustrator Claire Lewis had brought in these gorgeous Adventuremice cakes from the bakery just down the road. And there was a big Adventuremice display in the window!
Huge thanks to schools and The Bookery team for looking after us today, and another ENORMOUS thanks goes to the anonymous sponsor (a former publishing person) who donated enough money for ALL the children to take home a free signed copy of Adventuremice: Otter Chaos! She is the real star here; every single child, regardless of their means, was able to have their own book. Which was absolutely amazing, and incredible to see all their faces light up when Cathie told them about it. Thank you, thank you!!!