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168 comments:
Dear S.F Said,
I am Atyeo, I'm 8 years old and I am in year 4 and I was thinking that you could come to highgate junior school in north london. Its because I love your books and I would really like to learn how you write your stories and what inspires you. I asked the headmaster and he said he would welcome you warmly. I think the other kids will love it too!
I am writing this on my fathers computer and you can answer to his e mail. I hope you will say yes.
Yesterday I got Phoenix and am looking forward to reading it.
Thank you
Atyeo Thomas du Toit
Dear Atyeo,
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment! I would love to visit your school, but I would need the school itself to invite me. Could you maybe ask your headmaster to get in touch with me, by leaving a comment here with an email address I can reply to?
Thanks so much again - and I hope you enjoy reading Phoenix!
SF
Thank you for visiting our school yesterday evening - it was a very special treat to get a book signed by you on my birthday and it was great to say hi to you at the end. We started reading Varjak Paw straight away when we got home and can't wait to read all three! I hope you visit again before I leave the school. Sam Allen Year 4
Thank you so much for that fantastic comment, Sam! I really enjoyed visiting your school, and have just made a post about it here... In the meantime, happy birthday again, and I hope you enjoy the books!
Hello MR S.F Said,MY name is Mollieanne Adams,
I am really excited you are coming to my school today,i love reading your books!! I cant wait for you to sign mine and my friends books,good luck today,and hope you have a nice time with us all.
Hello Mollieanne, thank you very much for your kind message! I'm really looking forward to visiting your school and meeting you all today, I hope you have a nice time too!
Hi its Atyeo again. I just wanted to let you know that my headmaster is going to contact you soon. Like your other books you can't separate me from Pheonix. ( I'M LOVIG IT!!!!!)
Hi Atyeo! Thank you so much for letting me know - and that is absolutely brilliant to hear, I really appreciate it! Please let me know what you think when you get to the end of the book!
Hi, we are Y6 teachers who teach in multicultural North London primary school who have been using your Varjak books for 5 years. We use the books as a stimulus for writing and to explore PSHE themes of bullying, being differnt, friendship, grief and loss and self-esteem issues. Each year the children get so much from your books and this year they have become completely obsessed. We have written letters asking if you could visit us. We would like to arrange a visit in the new yaer if that is possible. Many thanks Fiona Gunn-Stokes.Y6 teacher and Assistant Headteacher and Alex Hall Y6 teacher
Dear Fiona & Alexander,
Thank you so much for your message, and your kind words about my work. I don't think I've received your letters, but if you could leave me a comment with an email address to reply to, I will certainly email you about visiting!
With many thanks and best wishes,
SF Said
Dear Mr Said,
I am a year 4 teacher in a school in South London. I have been reading Varjak Paw for 4 years now to my year 4 class and every year I am so thrilled at how much the children are absorbed into the world of Varjak and his family. Your books inspire the children that I teach year upon year and I am wanting to enquire about a possible visit to my school from you? My children would just be thrilled if this were to happen!
I look forward to your reply,
With many thanks,
Miss Groves
Dear Miss Groves,
Thank you very much for your message, and your kind words about Varjak Paw. If you could just leave me a message with your email address, I will email you about visiting! It won't be published, but I do just need a contact detail.
Thanks and best wishes,
SF Said
Dear SF SAID, you have visited new north academy and I was one of the pupils. So far I have written 5 MINI SHORT STORIES because you have inspired me to do so. I have learnt a lot from you and I will cherish your visit I hope you write another Varjak one of my ideas was varjak having a twin called varjak Claw and he could be bad. That could be a special edition . I really wish you would use some ideas in your books such as Holly and Varjak getting married! Thanks again (annonymous)
Dear sf.said
I was in the class which you visited at The New North Academy. I'm the one who asked you to sign the back and the front of the 2 books. I want to thank you so much for your visit and hope you luck in your new book!
P.S is your new book called Light of the Oracle ... ?
Your sincerely
Semih Oguz
Thank you so much for that amazing comment! I'm really glad to hear about your writing - keep going, and never give up!
I like your idea about Varjak Claw! I probably won't write that one myself, but if you would like to write it, I think you should - I love it when people write stories based on my books!
Thanks again for the great welcome - I'm just making a blog about the visit now...
Dear Semih,
Thank you so much for your kind comment! I'm glad you enjoyed the visit; I really enjoyed meeting you all, and signing the back & front of the books! I'm just about to make a blog about the visit...
My new book is not called Light Of The Oracle. I noticed an entry on a website that said it was, but not everything you read on the internet is true! I've never written a book with that title, and don't intend to. The working title of my next book is TYGER. I hope it won't take 7 years this time!
Best wishes,
SF
Dear SF Said,
You have visited Year 6 at New North Academy and you visited a class which I was in!
I really loved your visit. I remembered the part when you explained the way you inspired to become a writer and this inspired me to become a writer and I have started to make some story idea's which is going to be based on Varjak! Thank you for visiting!
Sincerely,
Tahsin (Year 6, New North Academy)
Dear SF.Said
I am so glad you came to our school and said we were one of the best you have met.I cant wait until the new book TYGER comes out.In my opinion I think it's going to be about a tiger that goes on an adventure and gets captured by other animals which try to kill him.make sure it doesen' t take you a long time(not worse than 17 drafts.)
New North Academy...Zakaria Ahmed.
Dear Zakaria,
Thank you so much for your fantastic comment, it really means a lot to me! I can't say too much about TYGER yet, as it's still in the early stages, but I will do my best to make sure it doesn't take so long this time - definitely not 17 drafts!!!
With best wishes,
SF
Dear Tahsin,
Thank you for your great comment! I'm glad you enjoyed the visit; I did too. Good luck with your writing, and best wishes,
SF
Dear SF Said
Thanks and I wish you luck for your new book!!
By Tahsin!!!
Thank you, Tahsin! If the others are anything to go by, I'm going to need it... I hope it won't be 7 years this time though!
All the best,
SF
Dear SF Said
It’s Atyeo, remember the guy who invited you to my school?
Well, I am very grateful for you coming to Highgate School on Wednesday.
And by the way PHOENIX was the best book you have ever written (in my perspective) it was very exciting and my favorite part was when lucky was a star and everyone was saying that he saved them but it was all very, very good. I really liked the fact that you used some elements of truth in the story making it educational. The reason I know that is because me and my friend went to the science museum and saw a film on space!
Please can you write another book?
You are too good a writer to stop plus I’ve read all your books and the whole world needs more!
From Atyeo ☺ ☺
Hi Atyeo! Of course I remember – and I'm very much looking forward to visiting Highgate School – though the visit is today, rather than Wednesday. I hope I'll get to meet you!
Thank you so much for your wonderful words about Phoenix; they really mean a lot to me. I think it's the best book I've written so far, too. And I'm really glad you went to the Science Museum, because I did a lot of research about space and stars while writing it!
Do you know about the weRead Book Award? They're asking readers to write reviews of books including Phoenix...
And don't worry, I'm writing another book right now! It's called TYGER. I'm on the 3rd draft, so still a long way to go; but I hope that one day, it will be even better than Phoenix.
Thank you so much again!
SF
SF
I have lived in the Emirates and Oman...
as Salaam Allah khum..( please excuse any spelling errors )
You are right, it is impossible to tell that you are not English... you sound like you belong here, your accent is pure English... whereas my Arabic has an English accent.
Not read your book yet (radio 4, heard you on there) but you could renew my interest in SF, if only to see your POV.
Hugo Rune
Dear Hugo,
Aleikum as-Salaam! Thank you very much for your kind comment. I'm really glad you enjoyed the talk on Radio 4, and I hope you enjoy the read as well!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear SF Said,
Will you please come to our school? We really love “Varjak Paw.” Even though we haven’t finished the book yet, I really want to know the four other moves of “The Way”. It is so exciting! It is one of my favourite books and Mummy said she would get the other book for me too when I have finished. I think it is strange that every cat in the family names begins with the letter J, even Jalals.
At the moment we are writing speeches from the Paw family members about why they should stay in the Contessa’s house and why they should leave. Most people in my class think that they should leave, the other ones think that they should stay because the Contessa might not have died.
I am in Year 3 at St. Andrew’s Primary School in Streatham, so hope it is not too far for you to travel, if you can come. Lots of children at St. Andrew’s would love to meet you and you can stay for lunch. I really hope you can come, my Headteacher Mrs Assid would like to meet you and so would my friends.. Thank you for writing such a brilliant book.
From Isabella Brown: Class M2
This is my school email
admin@st-andrewsrc.lambeth.sch.uk
Hi Mr Said, I am Sonya from New North Academy and I can't believe that you are coming to our school to watch our end of year show. We are putting a lot of effort in to the show and want it to be perfect. Once again I would like to thank you and your publishers for letting us make this possible. Hopefully we won't let you down. See you on the 23rd.
Hi Sonya! Thank you so much for your comment – and I'm really looking forward to the show! See you there!
Dear Isabella,
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I'm so glad to hear that you're enjoying Varjak Paw, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the story, and learn all seven Skills along with Varjak!
I would love to visit your school; I'll drop them a line at that email address right now.
Keep the Way alive!
SF
Hello SF Said,
My name is Ali. Please can you come to Cheetham CE Community Academy in manchester Year 5.
My whole class love Varjak and so far we're on book 2! Can you bring a copy of Pheonix and give me one please ill be looking forward to reading the end especially!
Thank You, Ali
I hope You Come.
Hi it's Sonya again, I got the date wrong the show is on Tuesday 22nd July 2014. See you there!
Hi Sonya, no worries, it's in my diary! See you there!
Dear Ali,
Thank you so much for your kind comment! I'm really glad you're enjoying my books. I would love to visit your school, but I would need the school itself to invite me. Could you maybe ask your teacher to get in touch with me, by leaving a comment here with an email address I can reply to?
Thanks so much again - and keep the Way alive!
SF
Thank you for your reply , Isabella is thrilled that you can come. I have spoken to her teacher and the Literacy Coordinator, Miss Bickerton, who is delighted to make arrangements for your visit. St. Andrew's is a fantastic school and your visit will be a huge event for the school community.
Best wishes
Nicola Brown
(Isabella's mother)
Dear Nicola,
Thank you very much for your message. I did email the school when Isabella left me her message, but I haven't heard anything back from them. So while I would love to visit the school in principle, we haven't actually agreed anything as yet, and there are many things that we need to discuss and agree on first. Could you perhaps ask Miss Bickerton to get in touch with me by leaving me a comment here with her email address, so we that can talk about it?
With thanks and best wishes,
SF Said
Dear SfF Said,
We are coming to visit you at Shoreditch Town Hall tomorrow and I am really looking forward to meeting you and hearing all about your stories. I did some research on your book the Phoenix and think I will really enjoy, enjoy it as I enjoy learning about stars.
See you tomorrow,
Isaac, Year 5
St Saviour Primary School
Dear Isaac,
Thank you so much for your comment! I really enjoyed meeting you all at Shoreditch Town Hall. I hope you enjoyed it too, and are enjoying reading Phoenix, and flying among the stars with Lucky!
With best wishes,
SF
Dear SF SAID,
thank you for coming to Mercenfeld today all your books are really amazing
Many thanks for coming,
Isabelle Payne
Mercenfeld Primary school
Dear SF
Thank you for coming to my school today. I really liked listening to you in assembly. Your books are great. I am reading the outlaw of varjak Paw.
From Charlie
Thank you so much for the school visit today. My daughter, Harriet is a huge fan of yours and was very overwhelmed to meet you & get a photo opportunity. Also,my other daughter, Abbie is a new convert to "The Way" and wanted to say thank you for autographing her book in gold ink!
Dear Charlie,
Thank you so much for your kind comment! I really enjoyed visiting your school, and I hope you enjoy reading The Outlaw Varjak Paw.
Keep the Way alive!
SF
Dear Caroline,
Thank you so much for that lovely comment, and please thank everyone at the school from me for the wonderful welcome! It was a pleasure to visit today, and it's an honour to sign books for fans and new readers alike. I hope Harriet and Abbie enjoy reading Phoenix as well as Varjak Paw.
Keep the Way alive!
SF Said
Dear Isabelle,
Thank you so much for your kind comment – it really means a lot to me. It was a pleasure to visit Mercenfeld today; thank you for the fantastic welcome!
With best wishes,
SF
Hi SF, I am Charlie's sister Beth. Charlie recommened I read one of your books so I got Pheonix today and you signed it!!! I am really looking to reading it. Thank you for your inspirational talk. I have started to write my own story.
From Beth
Dear Beth,
Thank you for leaving me a lovely comment too! I'm really glad you enjoyed the talk, and you've started writing your own story – that's great to hear. Good luck with it, and I hope you enjoy reading Phoenix!
And Charlie – thank you for recommending my books!
With best wishes,
SF
Dear SF
I am a teacher at Haseltine Primary School in South East London and our Year 6 classes have just finished reading ‘Phoenix’ and produced their finest writing yet as a result of being so inspired by this beautiful book. As a treat we took them to the Planetarium at Greenwich yesterday and on the way back we popped into the museum to have a look around. You can imagine how excited a few of them were to discover a thirteenth century Persian astrolabe on display!
We have published some of their stories on our website but the children would be so thrilled if you could read them too. Is there any possibility of us sending a few to you? They were utterly enchanted by the story and we managed to get some real poetry and magic out of their writing. Thanks for creating such a vivid and thought-provoking story!
Gillian
Dear Gillian,
Thank you so much for that amazing comment - it's fantastic to hear that Year 6 enjoyed Phoenix so much. I was particularly glad to hear about your visit to the Planetarium, and the astrolabe! Do you have an email address I can write to you at?
All the best,
SF Said
Dear Mr Said,
I am not sure whether my last post got to you. Would you be able to visit Vinehall Prep School on June 16th ( 2 sessions in the morning ideally) or back up alternative, June 18th) next term? We are in Robertsbridge, East Sussex, TN325JL. Many thanks, Nigel Butler
Dear Mr Butler,
Thank you very much for your message. I did get your last post, and sent you a letter in response, which I'm guessing you haven't received. Do you have an email address that I can write to you on?
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear SF Said,
I LOVED your visit to my school [Mercenfeld Primary]. I have finally finished my signed copy of the outlaw.Your visit was a great success and you have been in the Leicester Mercury since.Thank you again for coming to my school.
Isobel
Dear Isobel,
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment! I loved visiting Mercenfeld, and I'm so glad to hear that the visit was a success. And I'm glad you've finished reading The Outlaw Varjak Paw – I hope you enjoyed it!
Keep the Way alive,
SF
Hello
We are currently working from Varjak Paw in Year 4. It would be wonderful if you could visit our school, Highfield Junior School in Bromley Kent sometime this term. I know our pupils would love it!
Ms Schymyck
Dear Ms Schymyck,
Thank you very much for your message, and your kind words. Please could you leave me an email address, and I'll send you some information?
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear Mr Said, I am Mrs Nayak and would really like to invite you to visit our Y4 class and read your book in your own way and maybe do some activites with the children.
Thank you. your reply will be much appreciated.
Dear Mrs Nayak,
Thank you very much for your message. If you could just leave me an email address to contact you on, I will send you all the information about my visits.
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear SF Said
I am a Year 4 teacher at Hallfield Primary School in London. The children are looking forward to reading and enjoying 'Varjak Paw' next term, as part of our Ancient Mesopotamia topic. It would be absolutely amazing if the children could have the opportunity to meet you. Please could you let me know if this might be possible, and details of costs, available dates, etc.
Thanks very much
Amy Mehta
Dear Amy,
Thank you very much for your message. If you could just leave me an email address to contact you on, I will send you all the information about my visits.
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear SF Said,
My son is a great fan of Your 'Varjak Paw'. He is already waiting for the third. Meanwhile he would love to read 'Phoenix', but he can´t read it in English. Do You know when and where it will be released in German?
With best wishes,
Moritz and Max
Dear Moritz and Max,
Thank you so much for your kind comment! At the moment, the German rights to Phoenix are still available. If you would like to see it translated into German, the best thing to do would be to ask German publishers to publish it, and let them know that there would be an audience for it in Germany! Perhaps a good one to start with might be Carlsen, who published Varjak Paw?
With best wishes to you and your son,
SF Said
SF said thank you for coming to Easton academy i'M REALLY enjoying it i'm on chapter 7. Thanks again i hope you come again.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! It was a pleasure to visit Easton Academy, and I'm really glad you're enjoying the book. Happy reading, and please say hello to everyone at Easton for me!
With best wishes,
SF
Hi SF Said it was a pleasure to meet you at Beecholme Primary school. I Liked how you signed my book in silver it looked great. I think everyone enjoyed your assembly at our school. Thanks for the visit. (You came when I was in Year 4).
Daniya (Year 5,Beecholme Primary School).
Dear Daniya,
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment! I'm so glad you enjoyed the assembly, and I hope you enjoyed reading the book too! Please say hello to to everyone at Beecholme for me - I enjoyed visiting your school very much too.
With best wishes,
SF
Dear SF Said,
I will make sure to say that you said Hello to Beecholme Primary! I enjoyed your book so much that I read it in two days ! In guided reading at school my teacher Mrs Martin is reading Phoenix with my group ! I already know what happens so I cant tell my group although I really want to cause its thrilling ! Have Goodluck on your new book TYGER I'm sure i would want to read it! Maybe it will be better than Phoenix who knows.
With Good luck,
Daniya (Year 5 Beecholme Primary School)
Dear Daniya,
Thank you so much - it's amazing to hear that you read Phoenix in two days! I hope the rest of your class enjoys it too. Who was your favourite character?
And thank you about TYGER - I hope that one day, it will be even better than Phoenix!
With best wishes,
SF
Dear SF Said,
I think my favourite character was Lucky and Bazooka because Bazooka is funny and Lucky has awesome powers! I think my twin brother ( in year 5) Enjoyed your books too ! I think he read Outlaw of Varjak Paw and is still reading Phoenix as he is on Chapter twenty three. Good luck on Your new book TYGER. By the way what gave you the inspiration to write books ?
Daniya (Year 5 Beecholme Primary School)
Dear Daniya,
Those are great answers, thank you! I think I've been inspired to write by all the great books and stories that I've loved myself. Here's a link to a blog I made about one of them.
With best wishes - and please give your brother my best wishes too!
SF
Dear Sf Said,
I have not read the book Watership down. What is it about? Maybe you could check out our Beecholme website. I hope you have a great time making your new book TYGER. I think Phoenix is a wonderful book and the others too. Who are your favourite authors?
With best wishes
Daniya (Year 5 Beecholme Primary School)
Dear Daniya,
Watership Down is all about rabbits – just click this link to go to my blog about it, and you'll find out all about it!
Another one of my favourite authors is Ursula Le Guin, who writes science fiction and fantasy books. Here's a piece I wrote for the Guardian about her.
With thanks again, and best wishes,
SF
hi sf said, you came to our school not that long ago at ixworth free school. When you came i did not have any of your books and i did not have any to buy one but when i got home i talked none stop about your visit and if i could get one of your books and eventually i got the phoenix it is amazing i cried when his mum got killed that was my favourite part.I hope you write a second phoenix i would love it!!!!!!!!!!!!
bye
lillie:)
Dear Lillie,
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I'm going to post it and reply on the blog I made about my visit to Ixworth, which you can find here!
With best wishes,
SF
Dear SF Said，
I am Victor from about two years ago. I used to live in France, but now moved back to China. I haven't checked on this blog for ages, as the Chinese Government has also blocked Blogger with its firewall. When I finally found a way around it, one of the first things I did was to go on this blog and find out what's new. Nothing much has changed, I guess, but what I'm pretty disappointed to see no news about your process on the book you are currently writing, Tyger.
I have always loved your books, ever since Varjak Paw caught me and dragged me into the world of the "kung-fu cats" ,when I was 10. I could tell that I finally found the right author. Afterwards, I continued with The Outlaw Varjak Paw, then, Phoenix. I remember you recommending me to read Phoenix whilst waiting for your next book to come out. I have indeed read it, and many times, and could read it thousands of times without getting bored, but I just simply can't wait for your next book to pop out!
As you have said, Phoenix is indeed your best book -yet- ,and I sincerely loved it, it's one of the best books I've ever known, and there's several reasons to that, and I'm going to state them for anyone that hasn't read it yet. As I went through Phoenix, I could feel the world of Lucky myself, almost as if I were with the team, shooting through space to save the entire universe. Of course, I like feel that anytime I read any book, but the sensation with Phoenix was different, there is something more than just simply feeling, something so awesome I can't even explain, and that only happens with books I seriously enjoy; it is a book in which people can understand and learn lots of different things whilst reading it, and one of the first things I realized when I first read the book was to always listen to your mother (0.0). There are zillions of other treasures to dig up from that book, such as -the most obvious ones- never give up, be responsible for your mistakes and never ever start a fight, unless you really have to, and in most cases, you don't. I can go on and on making a list of gems and diamonds people would find reading this book forever. Digging deeper, they would find even more, and never stop discovering new ones. There was always something new to learn each time I read this book again; this is also a greatly organized book, not rushed, and everything makes sense, unlike the last book I read. That book had an interesting plot and a great story that makes you want to read on, but sometimes, things don't make sense, or seem messed up. The end of that book was so rushed that many things don't even connect, and scene passed too quickly without much details. The ending was also incomplete. Maybe the ending was supposed to be like that, but the other facts made the book somehow not quite as good; the most important reason though, is because this book makes the reader think. If the reader were really into the book, they would go though it again and again, and try to connect things together, either with real life or other things in the story. Once they succeed, they would realise that this book has been a massive amount of work, and that it could have a lot of ways to be understood. But I've been told Tyger would be even better…
If your best book is yet to come, could you please tell us about it? We'd love to hear more about it, even several sentences about where you are, and how long you think it might still take would please me, and your fans enormously!
Sincerely,
Victor
By the way, every word I wrote is what I truly think, none of it unreal, but maybe with some exaggerated examples…
---And I did not know where to post this, so I'm commenting the same place I did several years ago.
Dear Victor,
Thank you so much for writing again – I still remember your comment from two years ago! I'm so glad you read Phoenix and enjoyed as well. It took me 7 years to write that book, but all the hard work feels worthwhile when I read a comment like yours.
I'm going to make a blog post soon replying in more detail, with some more information about Tyger, as I think other readers might be interested too, and I'll put a link here to it when I do – but in the meantime, thank you once again – it's hugely appreciated!
With best wishes,
SF
Hi again Victor,
I've now made that blog I promised you about Tyger - you can find it by clicking here.
Thanks again, and very best wishes,
SF
Year 4 at King Offa Primary Academy in Bexhill on Sea absolutely loved Varjak Paw. I've bought The Outlaw Varjak Paw to read next term, it's brilliant. Do you do visits?
Thank you, that's very kind! I certainly do do visits – if you leave me an email address to reply to, I will send you all the information.
Thank you for agreeing to visit our school, Outwoods Edge, Class Larch loved Varjak Paw and I listen to The Outlaw Varjak Paw.
From Olivia
Thank you so much, Olivia - I'm looking forward to visiting your school!
My dear Mr Said,
The children in my year group will be celebrating animals in stories as part of a two week celebration of reading. I am the Literacy Leader at my school and since I have read Varjak Paw recently and I can't ask Rudyard Kipling to appear ( I will be reading The Jungle Book to my class!), are you able to come? The celebration begins on the 8th June and I feel the children may benefit from your talk because of your beautiful use of language, clever creation of animal lives and atmosphere. Please do let me know.
Thank you so much for your message. If you leave me an email address to reply to, I'll send you all the information about my school visits.
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear Mr Said,
I am a teacher at Havelock Primary School in Southall, West London. We have been reading the amazing Varjak Paw to our Year 4s and they love it (you may have seen our tweets about the work!). We are having a grand reopening of our library during the week of the 19th September and would love for you to visit us and open the library. Would it be possible for you to do a visit?
Many thanks, Jon Bailey.
Dear Mr Bailey,
Thank you very much for your invitation. If you could just leave me an email address, I'll send you all the information about my school visits.
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear Mr Said,
I have sent you an email via another account. We would be overjoyed if you could pay as a visit in the Autumn term. Please can you confirm as soon as you are able. I was the sender of the email of 31st May.
My very best to you
Thank you very much for your message. As I said on 31 May, if you leave me an email address with your comment, I'll happily send you all the information about my school visits. But I cannot reply unless you leave me an address to reply to here!
With thanks and best wishes,
SF Said
To SF Said,
I am a Year 3/4 teacher in Kent and we are just about to start reading Varjak Paw as part of our new literacy unit. We would love a visit from you to tie in with our learning - can we arrange this?
Mrs Lewins
Dear Yasmine,
Thank you for your message. I would love to visit your school - if you leave me an email address to reply to, I can send you all the information about my visits.
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear SF Said,
I am in a Year 3/4 class in a school in Cambridge and we have just finished reading Varjak Paw, the children were inspired. After the Christmas holidays we are going to start our topic on writing for suspense with Varjak Paw as our inspiration. It would be wonderful if I could get some information on your school visits and see if you could maybe come down and show us how to truly write for suspense.
Thank you,
Miss Luddy
Dear Miss Luddy,
Thank you very much for your message. I would love to visit your school - if you leave me an email address to reply to, I can send you all the information about my visits. The email address won't be published, but without it, I have no way to replying to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear mr SF said last year you visited my school water cliff meadow and you sighed my snorlax Pokémon card that's all I just thought it was a funny memory I also comment the phonixe 2 drafts wich got lost of my phone
Travis Baranowski
Dear Travis,
Thank you so much for your message! I really enjoyed visiting your school and meeting you - I hope you're still working on your writing, and your reading! I'm still working on my new book TYGER - I made a blog about it here.
With best wishes,
SF Said
Hi Mr Said, are you available for any primary school visits for 4 year 5 classes or a whole school between now and April? Maybe between the 6th and and 10th of February in the West Sussex area?
Does it cost for a visit?
I was recommended your books and the illustrations with Phoenix are wonderful!
Thank you,
Santosh
Dear Santosh,
Thank you very much for your message. I would love to visit your school - if you leave me an email address to reply to, I can send you all the information about my visits. The email address won't be published, but without it, I have no way to replying to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear Mr SF Said,
Thank you again for replying to my tweet about my daughter yesterday. I sent a picture of her as Varjak Paw for World Book Day. Hopefully you could find a time to visit her school in Cambridge. Your book is their topic for Year 3 & 4, she enjoys it very much and it is highly recommended by the head teacher.
Best regards!
Sincerely,
Mrs Horton
Dear Mrs Horton,
Thank you so much - I love visiting schools and meeting readers! If her school would like to invite me, could you ask them to get in touch and leave me an email address to reply to, and I'll send them a document with all the information about my visits?
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear Mr Said,
Hi, I have been really enjoying reading Phoenix as I start my summer holiday, in preparation for reading it to Year 5 next term. I read them the opening chapters before we broke up and they were completely enthralled. I wonder if you do author visits as far away as Yorkshire?
Many thanks
Tracy
Dear Tracy,
Many thanks for your message, and for reading Phoenix to Year 5 - that's great to hear! If you could leave me an email address here, I can send you all the information about my visits. The email address won't be published, but without it, I have no way of replying to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Hi Mr Said,
I have been tasked with engaging a group of reluctant boys in September. I couldn't think of a better book to inspire them than Varjak Paw. We would love you to visit to encourage and inspire the boys in reading and writing. We are in the Preston area.
Many thanks,
Jack
Hi Jack,
Thank you for your message, and your kind words about my work! If you could just leave me an email address to reply to, I can send you all the information about my visits. The email address won't be published, but without it, I have no way of replying to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
First of all thank you for the rich, descriptive story of Varjak Paw that I am currently preparing for my year 5 class in September. I can already see why its restless, adventurous and down-trodden hero has struck a chord with teachers and children alike and I am only on chapter 5.
I would love to be able to add to the children's experience by arranging the additional bonus of meeting the actual author of the book, so if you were willing, available and interested in coming to our nurturing, humble and welcoming school in South East London, we would be honoured by your presence.
Many thanks again.
Dear Fiona,
Thank you for your message, and your kind words about my work! If you could just leave me an email address to reply to, I can send you all the information about my visits. The email address won't be published, but without it, I have no way of replying to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Hello, I'm 7 years old and my name is Juliette. I read 100 times so I got to go to the garden party and choose a book and I chose Varjak Paw. I finished it today and I want to read it again and again ten times or even more. I loved it because it was exciting and about cats! Thank you for making this book and I'm really looking forward to getting The Outlaw Varjak Paw. From Juliette
Dear Juliette,
Thank you so much for your lovely message - it really means a lot to hear from a great reader like you! I'm glad you enjoyed Varjak Paw. Who was your favourite character in the book?
I hope you enjoy reading The Outlaw Varjak Paw as well. If you'd like to know more about that book, there's some information about it here:
http://www.sfsaid.com/p/outlaw-varjak-paw.html
Keep the Way alive,
SF Said
It's really hard -- I can't choose between Holly and Varjak!
Thank you - I like Holly and Varjak too! A lot happens to both of them in The Outlaw Varjak Paw, so I hope you enjoy that book as well.
Thanks again, and keep the Way alive!
SF
Hi - I am lucky enough to be chair of governors at Watermoor School, Cirencester. I also host a fantastic Year 6 book club and our latest book is Varjak Paw. I thoroughly enjoyed it .... and the children did too ! Is there any chance we could book a visit ? I think it would be amazing for them to meet you and would provide inspiration for their own story writing. Many thanks. Alison Pine
Dear Alison,
Thank you for your message, and your kind words about my work! If you could just leave me an email address to reply to, I can send you all the information about my visits. The email address won't be published, but without it, I have no way of replying to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear Mr Said
My daughter is currently reading your book for literacy at school. The class love the books and are spending time deconstructing the text and using it to help them write their own stories. It would be so wonderful, if you could visit the class. Would it be possible to arrange - the school is in London?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you very much for your message, and your kind words about my work! If you could just leave me an email address to reply to, I can send you or the school all the information about my visits. The email address won't be published, but without it, I have no way of replying to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
I have rarely feel compelled to write and thank anyone but in this instance I do. I have been reading Varjak Paw with my 9 year old son,soon to hit the double digits of 10 on 14th of December.
The books are fantastic and hit the right note for children of all ages including myself (over 40 years old). To be honest at first I found them a bit too descriptive in terms of the aggressiveness and the themes of loss, betrayal and heartbreak. On several occasions I was going to suggest we stop reading. My son insisted we continue and I'm so pleased we did. Your books are a reflection of life's,highs lows and triumphs and we should not shield our children.I had missed the spirit of the story about perseverance against all odds and that's a valuable legacy. Your books have inspired him to read and I would like to thank you for that. Just purchased "Phoenix" for his birthday. My only issue is he now wants a cat and I'm not partial to our feline friends.
Thank you
Dear Deedee,
Thank you so much for your wonderful message. You can't imagine how much it means to a writer to hear things like that. I don't find writing easy – Varjak Paw took me 5 years to get right – but all the hard work feels worthwhile when I hear things like that! So thank you, and please thank your son for me, and wish him HAPPY BIRTHDAY on December 14th! I hope he enjoys flying through the stars with Phoenix – here's Dave McKean's brilliant book trailer to get him started!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5yQjwqDFXA
With best wishes,
SF
Thank you so much for getting back to me I didn't expect a response. I nearly missed your message as it went in to my spam folder. I have given your lovely
birthday wishes to my son Lucas and he is over the moon.
If you are available for visits to schools outside London that would be amazing as I know his whole class were very taken with the books. However I understand that it would be very difficult to arrange. I will also check to see if you are doing any book signings as I know he would love to meet you and DanTDM (U tuber) I think you are well ahead on those stakes. Lol!
I would like to thank you gain in my mother tongue Ndebele.. Ngeyabonga. You've made a little boy very happy.
Warmest regards for 2018 to you and your family.
Hi,
Are you still carrying out visits to schools?
I am more than happy to discuss this further via e-mail but I am concerned that my e-mail address will appear on your website.
Yes, I still visit schools. If you could leave me an email address to reply to, I can send you all the information about my visits. The email address won't be published, nor will your message - I'll just use it to reply to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear SF Said,
I am writing on behalf of my class who would like to invite you to visit our school. They have started reading Varjak Paw this term and are really enjoying the book. They have lots of questions for you!
Best wishes and hope to hear from you soon.
Mrs Davies and Year 5
Dear Mrs Davies and Year 5,
Thank you very much for your message, and your kind words about Varjak Paw! If you could just leave me an email address to reply to, I can send you or the school all the information about my visits. The email address won't be published, but without it, I have no way of replying to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Hi, my 8 year old son came to listen to you today and he is so inspired! he is not a big fan of reading but has loved your books, He came out of school really upset as he couldn’t get his book signed and I’m wondering if there’s any way you could email a comment and signature so I can stick it in for him? Thank you so much
Dear Alex and Julie,
Thank you for your message - it's great to hear that your son enjoyed the visit, and the books! I'd be very happy to send you a signed bookplate for him that you can then stick into his book. Just leave me another comment telling me his name, the title of the book, and an address to post it to - I won't publish the comment and will keep it private, of course, but just need the details to get it to you!
All the best,
SF
Thank you so much for sending the signed book plate our son is delighted and totally into reading the outlaw now
Dear Alex and Julie,
My pleasure, thank you for letting me know! I'm glad we were able to sort it out for him. And I hope he enjoys The Outlaw Varjak Paw too!
With best wishes,
SF
Please can you come to Ayesha Community school in NW London. My teacher asked me to ask you. thanks and شكرا
Dear Fatima,
Thank you very much for your message! Please could you ask your teachers to leave me an email address here, so I can send them all the information about my school visits? The email address won't be published here - I'll only use it to send them the information.
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear SF Daid,
We would love you to come and visit our school in Forest Hill - we are huge Varjak Paw fans! Could you please let us know of available dates.
Thank you.
Nawal
Dear Nawal,
Thank you very much for your message, and your kind words! If you could just leave me an email address to reply to, I can send you or the school all the information about my visits. The email address won't be published, but without it, I have no way of replying to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Hello S.F said, I wrote to you a few years back and now I'm in secondary! I've read your car back paw/outlaw over 15 times your still the number 1 author to me
15 times! What an amazing thing for an author to hear! Thank you so much. I hope you keep reading, even though you're in secondary now - you're never too old to enjoy a great book!
Keep the Way alive,
SF
Hello S.F said, I wrote to you a a while ago but haven't received a message back. I am a primary school teacher Varjak Paw has been a favourite of mine and ideas the children I have taught, for over ten years. I am now at a school in Southgate. I was wondering if we could arrange a visit for you to visit to open our library?
I look forward to hearing from you
Kind reagards
Nicole
Dear Nicole,
Thank you very much for your message, and for working with my books! I'm afraid I'm now all booked up for this academic year, but I can email you all the information about my school visits if you leave me an email address to reply to? The email address won't be published here, but without one, I have no way of replying to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear S.F Said,
I hope you are well. Year 3 are reading your amazing book over the summer and we are following it up with a number of lessons and creative writing in the Autumn Term. Would it be possible for you to come and visit the pupils in the Autumn Term? My school is in North West London.
Kind regards,
Emma
Dear Emma,
Thank you very much for your message, and for working with my books! I can email you all the information about my school visits if you leave me an email address to reply to. The email address won't be published here, but without one, I have no way of replying to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Hi,
My name is Sarah and my class are currently just loving Varjak Paw. They have been so interested in what inspired you too. We had some questions - I wondered if you would answer them.
Thanks - your tales are as awesome as Jalal’s!
Hi Sarah,
Thank you for working with Varjak Paw, and please thank your class for me too! I'd be happy to answer a few questions - the best way would be to tweet them to me: https://twitter.com/whatSFSaid
With best wishes,
SF
Hi Mr Said,
My name is Ed and my class have absolutely loved reading Varjak Paw, although we haven't quite finished it yet!
For World Book Day, they have written letters for you as they want to tell you bits they really enjoyed about Varjak Paw and also things they were wanting to ask you!
Is there any way we could possibly send the letters to you so you could see what they have written? I am sure they would love to hear your thoughts on the letters!
I really appreciate you taking the time to read this.
Many thanks,
Ed
Dear Ed,
Thank you so much for reading Varjak Paw with your class - and please thank them for me too, and tell them to keep the Way alive!
There is an answer to your question on my FAQ page:
http://www.sfsaid.com/p/faq.html
Thanks again, and all the best,
SF
Hi Mr Said,
My Year 4 classes have really enjoyed listening to, and reading, your Varjak Paw books as their class reader.
For next year's class I was hoping that you might be able to come and visit us at my primary school?
We would be reading the books in the summer term, that's any time after April. Could you let me know if you are still planning to do author visits to schools and if you have any availability between May and mid July. We are a primary school near Milton Keynes.
Many thanks
Louise
Hi Louise,
Thank you so much for your message, and for working with my books! I can email you all the information about my visits if you leave me an email address to reply to. The email address won't be published, but without one, I have no way of replying to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear Mr Said,
I loved your books. They were amazing! I think you should write more. I have read all your books. I loved them all because they were exciting. My favourite was Phoenix. I loved the fire and characters, especially Lucky.
Lots of love (for your books and you),
Benji (age 6)
Dear Benji,
Thank you so much for your message - that really means a lot to me! I am writing a new book at the moment. This one is called TYGER. It's not quite ready yet, but I hope it won't be too much longer. You can read a bit about it here:
http://www.sfsaid.com/2016/01/i-had-amazing-message-from-reader.html
Thanks again, and best wishes,
SF
Hello Mr Said,
I will be a Year 4 NQT and have requested that my class be named after you (as each class in the school is named after an author). I was hoping you could create a welcome video or hold a Q&A via zoom/skype for my new class in September to engage them from the get-go with our class reader 'Varjak Paw'. It would be really lovely if this were possible.
Kind Regards,
Miss Bargit
Dear Miss Bargit,
Congratulations on qualifying, and thank you for asking that your class be named after me! I can email you some information if you leave me an email address in a comment here - I won't publish the comment, but without an email address, I have no way of replying to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear SF Said,
I hope you are well.
Firstly, I am writing to let you know how much I adore your books, especially Varjak Paw. As a primary school teacher and English lead, I am always on the look out for excellent books I can share with my class and yours are perfect. Currently, I am trying to inspire more children in my school to love reading. Would it be possible for you to write a message to the children at MCPA? I know they would love this and it will really inspire them.
Thank you for writing truly amazing books.
Kind regards,
Emma Hammond
Dear Emma,
Thank you so much for your message, and for your kind words about my work! Here's a message for you to pass on:
"Hello to everyone at MCPA! This is SF Said wishing you all HAPPY READING! I believe there's a book for everyone out there. Whatever you love, there are books about it. So if you haven't yet found your favourite book – keep reading! It could be the one you open next. And here's a list I made where you might just find some new favourites:
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-features/features/2019/january/hookedonbooks-31-great-books-that-could-help-get-your-child-reading/
With best wishes,
SF Said"
Hello,
Our Year 5 pupils are finishing Varjak Paw this week. Both staff and children have absolutely loved reading it. Class teachers could not put it down and our TA's have sneaked the book home to finish secretly. The children are begging us to read the sequel next. It was such a great choice and has been such a success we cannot thank you enough!
We would like to know if you have any availability/ dates for a zoom author visit and how much you charge for this.
Kind regards
Della
Dear Della,
Thank you so much for reading Varjak Paw with Year 5 - please say hello to the children and staff for me, and tell them to keep the Way alive! I can email you all the information about virtual visits if you leave me an email address here - I won't publish it, but without an email address, I have no way of replying to you!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Hello, Mr Said.
We are a Year 5 class from Ernesettle Community School in Plymouth. We have just finished reading Phoenix and we were astonished at the many twists and turns in the story, especially when we found out Diana used to be a Shadow Guard! Some of our favourite moments were when Lucky finally found his father and discovered his name wasn't actually Lucky at all.
We understand you are very busy, however we would like to ask you some questions about Phoenix (if you have the time to respond).
1. How did you get the inspiration for the book?
2. Why did you choose to have Diana sacrifice herself to save the Sunfire?
3. When when WHEN are you going to write a sequel?
4. How did you get the idea for Lucky's power and the name of the book?
5. What inspired you to become an author?
We were mesemerised by your story and cannot wait to see what you write next!
Best wishes, thank you so much for writing the book!
Class 5SI. Ernesettle Community School.
Hello Class 5SI at Ernesettle Community School, and hello Miss Ireson!
Thank you so much for your wonderful message! I'm so glad that you enjoyed reading Phoenix. I will do my best to answer your questions:
1. How did you get the inspiration for the book?
Phoenix had many sources of inspiration, from science fiction films, to the science of space, to the most ancient mythology. I wrote about some of these inspirations here:
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-features/features/2017/august/s.f.-said---the-epic-story-of-phoenix/
2. Why did you choose to have Diana sacrifice herself to save the Sunfire?
I didn't choose to do that - Diana did!
3. When when WHEN are you going to write a sequel?
I love the fact that you want to read more - thank you! I don't have any plans to write a sequel to Phoenix myself, but I would be totally honoured if YOU were to write your own sequels! Some of the first stories I ever wrote were inspired by other people's stories. If you'd like to do that, here's something you might find interesting - a blog I made about the writing process, with lots of tips, and an early draft of the opening of Phoenix:
?http://www.sfsaid.com/2017/01/three-steps-to-writing.html
4. How did you get the idea for Lucky's power and the name of the book?
Those things developed as I worked on the book. They weren't there in the first draft, or even the second draft, as you will see if you look at the blog above! I do a lot of drafts, because my aim is always to make my books as good as I possibly can, and that takes a long time. I only realised that the book should be called Phoenix in the seventh and final year of writing it! Sometimes you know the title at the start, as I did with Varjak Paw; but sometimes you need to know everything in the story first, as I did with Phoenix.
5. What inspired you to become an author?
The books I loved when I was young inspired me to write my own books. I loved them so much, I wanted to write something that was even half as good one day. All authors are really just readers who take one more step, and write the stories they want to read. You can do this too - and you can do it at any age! Just write the stories you want to read yourself, and make them as good as you'd want those stories to be.
Happy writing and reading to you all!
SF Said
Dear SF Said
I am Aydin Landi. I am in year 4 in Isaac Newton Academy. It was really exciting to see you today at our virtual assembly. Thank you for your time and thank you for writing Varjak Paw. I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to reading The Outlaw of Varjak Paw. Your books are the best and it has made me wanting to read books. I had soo many questions to ask you today but didn't get a chance. I wanted to know if you are going to write another Varjak Paw?
Thank you
Aydin
Dear Aydin,
Thank you so much for your message! I'm really glad you enjoyed the virtual visit, and I'm glad you enjoyed reading Varjak Paw too! I hope you enjoy The Outlaw Varjak Paw even more - I think it might be a little bit better than the first one, myself.
I'm sorry you didn't get a chance to ask a question the visit, but I'm glad you asked me one here! The answer is yes: I am planning to write a third book about Varjak one day. You can read a little bit about my idea for it here:
http://www.sfsaid.com/2016/07/will-there-ever-be-third-varjak-paw-book.html
Thanks again, and keep the Way alive!
SF
Dear SF Said,
I hope you are well. My Year 4 class last year loved Varjak Paw and I am currently reading it with my Year 3 class. Would it be possible to book a virtual visit with you? My class would be very interested in asking you questions.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thank you,
Farzana
Dear Farzana,
Thank you so much for reading Varjak Paw with your classes! I can email you all the information if you just leave me an email address as requested - I won't publish it, but without an email address, I have no way of sending you the information!
With best wishes,
SF Said
I have just started reading Varjak Paw with my Year 4 class and they are already hooked. I'd love to book a virtual visit. The children would be so exited to talk to you and they are never at a loss for questions to ask!
Thank you
Katherine Green
Dear Katherine,
Thank you so much for reading Varjak Paw with your class! I can email you all the information if you leave me an email address to send it to. I won't publish your email address here, but without it, I have no way of sending you the information!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear SF Said,
I'm Maggie, a Year 4 teacher and theatre practitioner working in South East London. Happy Easter!! Hope you are enjoying the season of new possibilities!!
I'm about to begin teaching Varjak Paw with my class and I've just begun reading and researching your book. I am enjoying the adventure...
I would love to arrange a visit (virtual or in person) for my children.
Kind regards
Dear Maggie,
Happy Easter to you too - and thank you for reading Varjak Paw with your class! I can email you all the information if you leave me an email address to send it to. I won't publish your email address here, but without it, I have no way of sending you the information!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear SF,
I hope you're doing well. Last year, you conducted a virtual visit with our Year 4 classes and we would love if you would be able to come back this year either virtually or in person for a visit with our new Year 4 cohort who will be reading Varjak Paw in the next term. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Thanks
Dear Year 4 Teacher,
Thank you for getting in touch again. I'd love to organise another virtual visit - if you still have my email address from last time, then please email me there; otherwise, I can email you with all the up-to-date information if you leave me an email address here. I won't publish your email address here, but without it, I have no way of sending you the information!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Hello there, I'm a Y4 teacher in Camden and we'd love to organise a visit for the children to meet you. We're about to start studying Varjak Paw and will be for some weeks so I hope we can find a date that suits you. Thanks in advance! Louise.
Dear Louise,
Thank you for reading Varjak Paw with Y4! I'm not doing in-person visits at the moment, but I am doing many virtual visits instead. I can email you all the information if you leave me an email address to send it to - I won't publish your email address here, but without it, I have no way of sending you the information!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Hi,
We are Aspen class in a primary school. We are currently reading Varjak Paw.
A lot of children in this class have a question that they really would like to find out.
Their question is,
Why are all the illustrations in your book dark where the setting and the cats are more colourful?
Cannot wait to hear your reply.
Aspen Class
Thank you so much for your message, Aspen Class, and thank you for reading Varjak Paw!
I think the best person to answer your question would be the artist Dave McKean, who did the illustrations in Varjak Paw. Although it's true that I wrote the book, I didn't do any of the illustrations - if you look carefully on the cover, you'll see Dave's name listed there as the illustrator. So he was the one who decided how things should look in the illustrations. I wrote a bit about the process of working with him in this blog post:
http://www.sfsaid.com/2020/05/collaborating-with-dave-mckean.html
Having said that, I really love Dave's illustrations. I think Varjak Paw is quite a dark story, and the darkness of the illustrations suits the mood of the events. But I believe it's always up to each reader to imagine things for themselves in their own way, even in books that have illustrations, so if you would like to see the cats drawn more colourfully - I would be honoured and delighted if you were to make those drawings yourselves! Draw them the way YOU imagine them, and would like to see them. And if your school has a Twitter account, you can always tweet me your pictures - I'd love to see them!
Thanks again, and keep the Way alive,
SF Said
Hi!
Hope you are well.
I am a year 4 teacher at Hylands Primary School in Essex and I wondered if you had availability for a virtual meet with our year group. We are only one day into reading your book and they are so intrigued already!
Hopefully we can find a time to suit you! Thanks, Sophie
Dear Sophie,
Thank you so much for reading my book with your class! I can email you all the information about my virtual visits if you leave me an email address to send it to. I won't publish your email address here, but without it, I have no way of sending you the information!
With best wishes,
SF Said
Hello,
Class 4JS at Sherrier Primary School have been loving Varjak Paw! They have been passing it around the class since it has arrived in the classroom, with a waiting list now to read it.Those that are reading it take every opportunity to do so. It would be great if you could send a message/recording of yourself saying what inspired you to become the author you are today and any positive messages for the children of the class you may have if possible!
Many thanks,
Mr Smith and Mrs Haddon (4JS teacher and assistant)
Dear Class Mr Smith, Mrs Haddon and Class 4JS,
Thank you so much for your message, and for reading Varjak Paw! I hope you enjoy his adventures.
The books that I read and loved when I was young inspired me to write my own books. I loved them so much, I wanted to write something that was even half as good one day. All writers are really just readers who take one more step, and write the stories they want to read themselves.
I think you can do this too, and you can do it at any age - because I really do believe that if all writers are readers, then all readers can be writers too! I wrote a bit about this here:
http://www.sfsaid.com/2017/01/three-steps-to-writing.html
Happy reading and happy writing to you all!
SF Said
Dear Mr Said,
I am a teacher at Bousfield Primary School in London. We were in touch during lockdown, when I taught my two Year 4 classes your wonderful book, Varjak Paw. They loved it so much that they begged me to be able to write to you, to tell you how much they enjoyed reading it.
You kindly wrote back and it made their year!!
Word has travelled and this year's Year 4's were not going to miss out on such an opportunity. They also adored the book. So, they too have written you letters and would love to know where to send them please? They are on email form.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you so much,
Mrs Kay, Year 4 Teacher
Dear Mrs Kay,
Thank you so much for your message, and for working with my books! Please say hello to your Year 4's and thank them for me too.
As for where to send letters - all the information can be found on my FAQ page.
With best wishes,
SF Said
Dear Mr Said,
I am a teacher in a large junior school in Hounslow and we would love it if you were able to come in and visit our Year 4 children during the summer term next year? Previous year 4 children have always loved Varjak Paw and it has motivated many children to develop a love of reading. We are also encouraging our Year 5s to read other books by you so hope a book signing might be an option?
I look forward to hearing from you!
Nicole Stockman
Dear Nicole,
Thank you so much for your message, and for working with my books! I can email you all the information about my author visits if you leave me an email address to send it to. I won't publish your email address here, but without it, I have no way of sending you the information!
With best wishes,
SF Said
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