And Even More Book Birthday Photos!

Poems, stories and art, both 2D and 3D!

Photos from the Walking Mountain Book Birthday Start to Flood In!

And some happy author pics!

More photos on the way - meantime

THANK YOU VERY MUCH QPS FOR A FABULOUS LAUNCH!!!

Calling All P6s and P7s - Let's Celebrate!

There's a birthday coming soon!

But it's not for a person - it's a birthday for a book - my new book!  It's called Walking Mountain, it's coming out in June, and I'd like you to help me celebrate!

I'm coming to visit Queensferry Primary on Wednesday to talk about my new novel and the journey it's been on so far.  I'm really excited about it, and I hope you will be too, because ... I'm going to be handing the book launch for Walking Mountain over to you!

Every book launch/book birthday has the author reading a bit and smiling a lot and thanking people - there's always lots of people to thank! - but what else could there be?  How about some artwork?  Could there be some what-happened-next stories or poems?  Or maybe acting out a scene from the book?

How would YOU like to celebrate my new book's birthday in June? Whatever you come up with, I know it'll be great.  The best book birthday ever!

See you Wednesday and we'll get the ball rolling!

Slightly Jones and P6C

Look at what fabulous work P6C has been doing on The Slightly Jones Mysteries!

And here I am with some of you and the books you've been reading and drawing and writing about -

Slightly Jones and the Case of the Sensational P6s!

My November Visit to You

Did you notice a whirlwind at school last Wednesday?  That was me!

First I was with P3M and P3A/W reading from The Mucker's Tale and wondering what might happen if you said Abracadabra backwards, which is, of course ...

ARBADACARBA!

(The answer is Spells That Go Wrong! and you wrote some crackers!)

Then on to P4W/B and then P5B and then P5W and then P4Mc where we talked about what might happen if we put a character into a situation that made them feel worried and anxious and what we got were ... 

SOME REALLY SCARY SCENES! 

And in-between there somewhere I told the story of Ribburta and the Run-ragged Babysitting Adventure to the P1s and read some of the other classes' work and answered questions and asked questions and had my photo taken with some P6s and was amazed all over again at ...

WHAT A GREAT SCHOOL QUEENSFERRY PRIMARY IS!

Thanks for having me and, till I see you next -

KEEP READING!

and

KEEP WRITING!

P6 and P7 - Spot Yourself among the Writers!

I had a great time doing writing workshops with the P6s and P7s - now, can you find yourself in the pictures?  It's like Where's Wally, without the stripey sweater! 

(And, just in case you were wondering, the people who are hiding their eyes are doing that to help them see the scene they're about to write in their minds ... not because they've all suddenly got headaches!)