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Last week, I had the great pleasure of visiting Haberdashers' School For Girls as part of their Literature Festival.  Other speakers at...

I've had the pleasure of visiting New North Academy twice before: first when I  met last year's Year 6s , and then when I attended t...

Whitstable Literary Festival is only in its second year, but it's already established itself as one of the most exciting new book festi...

I'm a big fan of book festivals.  I love attending them myself, and seeing my favourite authors talk about their work.  So I'm thril...

I'm a huge fan of libraries.  I write my books in them, and I couldn't do my work without them.  So it was an absolute honour to be ...

Earlier this year, I had the enormous pleasure of visiting Mercenfeld Primary .  The brilliant teacher who invited me, Amber Rao, told me th...

I was asked to vote in a BBC poll to find the top 10 children's books of all time .  I found it impossible to pick 10; whatever I chose,...

I was absolutely thrilled when Phoenix was short-listed for the Warwickshire Secondary Book Awards ! These awards are voted for by read...

I had the pleasure of visiting Cheetham CE Community Academy recently. You can read all about my visit by clicking  here .  After the visi...

I'd like to say a very big thank you to Mona Katergi and everyone at Cheetham CE Community Academy who I had the pleasure of meeting la...

For  World Book Day this year, I asked people on Twitter to send me photos of children dressed as characters from my books.  I was amazed b...