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geneva pirate invasion
This week I went on my first-ever trip to Switzerland! I used to pride myself on travelling lightly, just a tiny rucksack, but I never used to travel around foreign cities wearing big hats or dressed as a pirate. Some … Continue reading
world book day tour, part 3
At Winchester House School, they don’t go for inelegant little things like microphones, they have much more eye-catching amplification devices. For World Book Day, I did storytelling, character design and comics workshops with the kids, and I was glad to … Continue reading
world book day tour, part 2
When I got into my pirate gear on Wednesday morning, my first pre-World Book Day stop was Newbottle and Charlton Primary School in Oxfordshire. Louise told me that it was the first time they’d ever had an author visit the … Continue reading
pirate shenanigans at imagine children’s festival!
Wow, yesterday was a BIG day! I’m still feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all, but in a good way. I led three storming pirate events for the IMAGINE Children’s Festival at the Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank. It’s … Continue reading
bishop’s stortford picture book award 2011
Yesterday morning I met Giles Andreae at Liverpool Street Station and we took the train up to Bishop’s Stortford, where last year our book Morris the Mankiest Monster won the Bishop’s Stortford Picture Book Award. (I blogged about last year … Continue reading
wild railway adventure at newton prep
Can I just say for the record that I am a big fan now of Newton Prep School in Battersea? I was a bit nervous this morning when I went to do a full day there because I’d never done … Continue reading
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
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
book heaven at cheltenham lit fest
If someone had asked me, which writers would you like to see gathered all in one place? Wish hard! Well, yesterday at the Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature went a long way toward fulfilling my wish. On the train back, … Continue reading
masked adventures in comics at battersea park
Today we had people all ages making comics at the Pumphouse Gallery in Battersea Park, as part of the HyperComics exhibition and the London Open House. (You can see more of my photos from the exhibition here and here. We … Continue reading
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