Tag Archives: Joined-Up Reading

September 18, 2012

More from the Joined-Up Reading Conference

Here’s a few more pics for you from the Joined – Up Reading Conference (see yesterday’s blog, too):   Here I am with Miriam Halahmy, YA fiction writer. Nice plug on the book there, Miriam! #pro Bali Rai, Sarah McIntyre (holding Allan Ahlberg’s bear – don’t tell him), me, Nicola Smee (all CWIG committee members […]

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September 12, 2012

Joined-Up Reading

I’m busily preparing for the Joined- Up Reading Conference at Reading this weekend.   ‘Goose’ illustration by super-talented CWIG committee member Nicola Smee. ©Nicola Smee   The conference is being hosted by the Children’s Writers and Illustrators Group, a branch of the Society of Authors. Somehow – and I’m still not sure how this happened – […]

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June 24, 2012

Book Review: Monacello

I bought Monacello last week at the Joined-Up Reading Conference. The author, Geraldine McCaughrean, was one of the speakers. ‘Never boil your cabbages twice,’ was one of the many memorable things she told us. Never boil your cabbages twice. In other words, don’t write the same thing over and over. Well, she certainly never does. […]

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