Children's Book Week 2023

Children’s Book Week is a favourite time of year for authors - a chance to meet our readers and share our love of story making. I love nothing more that having the chance to share my passion for oral storytelling and how speaking can clear the bumps in the road to fluent writing.

If i’m very lucky, I might even get to visit a school where the children and staff are dressed up as their favourite characters or sporting some book themed outfit.

I met a shark.

I knew that book fairies existed but this is the first time I’ve spotted one. Great use of old books that would otherwise end in the recycle bin! I’m guessing this gown would be ‘dry clean only’.

And of course, I’m not leaving a school without introducing the students to kamishibai storytelling.