A video for the children of Brazil on World Book Day

A video for the children of Brazil that I made with picture book man Ed Vere and the children of Nightingale School for Pop Up Projects!

Sunshine and three very special schools in Hackney for Booklinks

I stopped for coffee next to the Hackney Empire theatre 

Today I visited three schools in Hackney as part of the Booklinks programme created by Pop Up Projects - Morningside, Millfields and Clapton Girls' Academy. I've just been reading my friend Jane McLoughlin's report about her Booklinks Day and I have to agree that it's a very special and satisfying programme -

Shhh ... I'm writing ...

... yup, I'm keeping my head down for a bit because I'm busy writing the final chapters of my forthcoming novel SHINE (I hope they've removed the synopsis on Amazon because boy oh boy, how the story has changed since it went up).

But ... 

For some reason, life isn't just standing by waiting for me to finish writing my book.