Monthly Archives: February 2010
World Book Day’s a-coming…
It’s World Book Day next Thursday (March 4th). Have you had the letter from school to take home telling you there’ll be a voucher for a £1 book? If so, did your Mum roll her eyes and go: ‘What? Again? … Continue reading
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Research
Despite the internet, I still use books for my research. I have a shelf full of them above my desk. Here’s a condensed inventory: First and foremost, there are my dictionaries. I have : One Oxford Concise (split in half … Continue reading
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Chatterbox on Chatterbooks
I have just spent a fantastic hour and a half as a ‘hot seat’ guest emailing responses to children’s questions on a forum called SupergroupsPlus. The forum is a British Council funded web chat for kids all over the world. … Continue reading
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March 2010
My winter hibernation is almost at an end – what a pity winter isn’t! As March beckons I have to start getting organized because I have so many school visits and events on the horizon. Here’s my ‘to do’ list: … Continue reading
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It’s official – my books are better than Twilight (allegedly)
Never Ever I had a splendid e-mail from a girl called Lauren yesterday. She’d just finished reading my teen book ‘Never Ever’ and wrote: ‘I wanted it to last longer. I love that book. I enjoyed it more than Twilight.’ … Continue reading
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Books are for life, not just World Book Day
Here’s a little song for you on this grey winter’s day. Please sing loudly to the chorus from The Hippopotamus Song.’ You know the one… It goes: Mud, Mud, glorious mud… Books, books, glorious books Nothing quite like them for … Continue reading
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Why reading really matters and I’m not even kidding…
In case you can’t read the text on Posy Simmonds’ clever cartoon, the little girl is bringing her fellow train passengers up to speed with her Harry Potter book: ‘… but see, they aren’t really them…they’ve just changed into them, … Continue reading
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Schools’ Exhibition at Rufford Abbey
I went to a really inspiring exhibition at Rufford Abbey in Nottinghamshire on Friday (12th Feb). The exhibition was the end result of a project involving various secondary schools who were asked to explore ideas about what their ideal new … Continue reading
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February 13th: Huddersfield Town 2 Swindon Town 2
It has reached that part of the season where teams are desperate to do one of three things: 1. gain automatic promotion (in League 1, this looks like Norwich City and Leeds United at the moment) 2. secure a place … Continue reading
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A little poem from Roger McGough
Survivor Everyday, I think about dying. About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things © Roger McGough from The Nation’s Favourite Comic Poems (BBC)
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