School and Library visits

For fees and availability on school visits email infohelena-pielichaty.com.

For school visits based on the Girls FC books or the Reads United events with Tom Palmer please contact Eve Warlow at Walker Books at

• I am available for school visits but need at least three months advance notice.
• I can do whole school assemblies, workshops about writing with individual classes and straightforward talks. I cover the whole of Key Stage 2 and 3 but don't mind meeting Key Stage 1 pupils for a short 15-20 minute session.
• I will undertake up to three 1 hour sessions a day for straightforward talks or two 1½ hour sessions of creative writing, beginning no earlier than 9.15 - 9.30am.
  A combination of talks and creative writing is also possible. Please let me know your preferences at the time of booking.
• I also give talks to interested adult groups such as librarians or book groups.
• For details of fees and availability contact the publicity department at OUP on (01865) 353090 or email .

Wi-aye man! Here's an email from a secondary school librarian near Halifax:

PIELICHATY, Helena From: Halifax Librarian To: PIELICHATY, Helena Subject: Your visit to our school Just a few lines to thank you for such an excellent morning. Our best author visit yet. I was almost overwhelmed at lunchtime by hordes of children all determined to enter the quiz and win the pack of books. It was a measure of your success that the child with Asperger's never 'went off' for a full hour - something almost unheard of!

"What can I say? You were absolutely amazing! I can safely say you have been one of our most entertaining authors ever and more to the point one of the most inspiring."
Aneesa Akhtar, Librarian, The Green School, Isleworth

"I am writing to say thank you for a fabulous visit to Preston. Feedback for both the class visit and the family event have been excellent. The way you involved the children was great."
Kathryn Boothroyd, Senior Librarian, Lancashire County Council

"I really liked the visit from the author and I thought it was really cool when she let us get up and act out the plays from the stories."
Y5 pupil, Branston, Lincolnshire

From Chloe Murphy Y5 of St Peter at Gowts Primary, Lincoln
'Thank you so much for coming in. Your visit really inspired me to write really good stories. After your visit, I rewrote my story and thankfully, with your brilliant tips, I wrote it much better.'

'Thank you for coming and telling us the fantastic story about the Twiglet story which was very funny.'
Dean Y6, John Blow Primary School

From Margaret Starr, Bosworth Community College, Leicester:
'We very much appreciated your visit to Bosworth College. Your presentations were most inspiring and entertaining and all the feedback from students was excellent. GCSE and A level students alike said their workshop was enjoyable and helpful and gave them plenty of ideas to take away and try.'

From Barbara Wood, Youth Services Manager:
'Thank you so much for the work you did in Gateshead as part of this year's Northern Children's Book Festival. Your sessions were excellent - stimulating and enjoyable - and we felt the children got a lot from them.'

Part of the feedback from the 'Read on Up' Book Festival, Lincolnshire:
'I really liked the visit form the author and thought it was really cool when she let us get up and act out the plays from the stories.'

'The children were absolutely riveted for a whole hour.'