I'd like to say a huge and heartfelt THANK YOU to all the amazing children, teachers and librarians I met when I visited Coventry with The Children's Bookshow this week – and I'd like to thank everyone at The Children's Bookshow for inviting me to work with them, and for making this all possible!
The Children's Bookshow is a brilliant charity that works very hard to inspire children around the country with a love of reading and books. They organise huge events where children from many schools come together to see writers and illustrators talking about their work. Every child is then given a free copy of a book – and some of them then go on to do creative workshops in their classrooms!
So this year, I did an event at the Warwick Arts Centre attended by 500 children and their teachers, from schools around Coventry. It's a fantastic theatre space, and I loved being able to talk to so many people at once about reading and writing and books – and then to hand out a copy of Tyger to every child who attended, thanks to the generosity of The Children's Bookshow!
We then went on to do workshops at Cannon Park Primary, Spon Gate Primary, Newdigate Primary and Little Heath Primary. I worked with the children through the process of having ideas for stories, writing first drafts, and then editing them, and they produced some fantastic pieces of writing!
It was a total pleasure to do this, and the whole experience was one of the most exciting and inspiring experiences I've ever had as an author – so THANK YOU again to everyone who was part of it!
Year 5 have written an amazing range of first drafts after being completely inspired by @whatSFSaid. Huge thanks to @ChildrensBkShow for a magical day!#ReadingForPleasure pic.twitter.com/Tj8ZXH5CW4
— Cannon Park Primary (@CannonParkSch) November 5, 2024
Thank you @ChildrensBkShow for organising this fabulous event with @whatSFSaid. We found it fascinating listening about the writing process used! The children have asked if we can do a #Tyger #bookclub and even started reading it on the way back to school! #reading @warwickarts pic.twitter.com/bTM1cUaXva
— 🧡 Abbey Catholic School 🧡 (@AbbeyPrimary) November 5, 2024
