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The Sea House: An interview with Lucy Owen
Lucy Owen is familiar face on BBC Wales and the author of Boo-a-Bog in the Park. Here, she talks about her moving new book The Sea House, dealing with grief
11/04/2019
Journey into a world
where stories come to life...
The Teaching Realm
The Teaching Realm: An interview with the DynamicDeps #11
The Reading Realm Blog Series: Educators doing extraordinary things “Reading for pleasure takes you away from your current world and into another. It means getting at you deeply and tugging
10/04/2019
Articles
Jasper and Scruff: An interview with Nicola Colton
Nicola Colton is an Irish illustrator and author. Her new story Jasper and Scruff is the first in a hilarious, heart-warming series of books for 5-8 year olds. Here she
04/04/2019
Articles
Wildspark: An interview with Vashti Hardy
Vashti Hardy is a writer of children’s books living near Brighton in Sussex with her husband and three teens. She was a primary school teacher for several years and her
31/03/2019
Testimonials
Feedback from staff training on developing vocabulary and reading comprehension, 26.3.19
Some lovely feedback from teachers and support staff on today’s training, where we explored lots of interesting words, spelling strategies and activities for teaching vocabulary depth and breadth!
26/03/2019
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The Power of Imagination: An interview with The Fan Brothers
Brothers Eric and Terry Fan are best known for their magical, surreal, gorgeous picture books, including The Night Gardener, The Antlered Ship and Ocean Meets Sky. Here they talk to
25/03/2019
Articles
Charlie Change Into a Chicken: An interview with Sam Copeland
Sam Copeland is an author and a literary agent and director at Rogers, Coleridge and White. He works as a chicken whisperer, travelling the world using his unique gift to
24/03/2019
Articles
The Light in the Night: An interview with Marie Voigt
Marie’s debut picture book, Red and the City, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2018 . Her second picture book, The Light in the Night, was published by Simon & Schuster
20/03/2019
Resources
Free display resource: Things we could say to each other to encourage a love of writing
Lots of brilliant children’s authors contributed to the list of ‘Things you could say to children to encourage a love of writing’, so I’ve turned their ideas into a display –
19/03/2019
