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You Read? You Write? You Tube! ... Come Star in My Video!

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I've made quite a few fun videos now with the cooperative children who live in my neighbourhood, but the kids - rather inconveniently...

Shhh ... I'm writing ...

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... 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 the...

How I almost drowned and other delightful seaside tales

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This is a photo of me on a South Korean beach just before I almost drowned 25 years ago. Over on the DFB Blog, I've been asked to blo...

Salford Children's Book Award

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Last week, I was one of the shortlisted authors who attended the wonderful prize giving ceremony for the Salford Children's Book Awar...

The Book is Dead? Not at THIS School!

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An excerpt from the Reader's Cup - taken with my mobile phone!

2012, Here We Come!

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Here's wishing you all much happiness this coming New Year, whatever 2012 may bring ...

Spreading the love this season

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Season's Greetings, oh lovely friends and readers!!!

Kids Lit Quiz - Meeting the Best Readers in North London!

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Quizmaster Wayne Mills travels the world conducting these quizzes Wow! Yesterday, I chugged up to the North London Heat of the Kids Lit ...

Great Expectations With SCBWI British Isles

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You win a prize, you get to cut the cake! Photo: Sue Eves I've just come home from a most moving weekend. It was the annual conferen...

Learning about learning to read: Phonics, Real Books, Reading Schemes, The Electric Company

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Reading is good. But how should reading be taught? Photo:  Pratham Books   I'm an author (just). Surely I know something about read...

Mum of Warcraft: my autobiographical story on Tesco Magazine Kids' Book Club

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Yes, dear reader, Mum of Warcraft is based on my absolutely true story as a part-time computer game fanatic. Check out my Mum of Warcraft ...

Finding The Unmistakeable I Am

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Screen Grab from ABC News obit I was saddened this morning to hear that Steve Jobs had died . I immediately wanted to write a quic...

Outside looking in ... or inside looking out?

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I've been deep in my cave these last few weeks, writing furiously -   our recent holiday has given me fresh energy and for the first ...

What I did on my summer staycation

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Well it's back to school for us here in the UK - and I'm sure school children all over the country are gearing up to write the tra...

Summer tales

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It's the summer holidays but I seem to be doing a lot of guest blogging! Come along and see what I'm wittering on about on other peo...

Pressing SEND. Winning while not winning. Illusions at the Pop Up Festival.

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Today | Pop Up Festival | UKLA Book Prize  | UKLA Shortlists Today I pressed SEND today. The manuscript of my second novel is now ...

Creating a Legend in Your Own Time

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This was my contribution to the Awfully Big Blog Adventure Online Festival !  I was the 4pm act! Visit the Tall Story website Art by ...

Branford Boase Awards Night

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The handsome Jason Wallace and his editor Charlie Sheppard won the Branford Boase 2011 last night for their book Out of the Shadows (An...

Popping Up at the Foundling Museum: thinking about left behind children

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A still from Coram Boy, as played on Broadway. More pics here I read Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin many years ago: the story of a...