Today, I am very chuffed to welcome Joe Craig, author of the Jimmy Coates series, to Library Mice. Joe was kind enough to agree to write a piece for me about his experience of school author visits. I’ve been doing events at schools since my first ‘Jimmy Coates’ book came out in 2005. There was …
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CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK 2011: The school librarian’s perspective
I am a school librarian,of course, but I was intersted in hearing another librarian’s prespective on Children’s Book Week. I contacted Becky, aka The Bookette, and she mentioned a post she had written back in May 2010. So today’s post, courtesy of Becky, is her Bookette’s Guide to Planning a Book Week. The Bookette’s Guide to Planning …
The day I met S.C. Ransom …
Yesterday we were so happy to welcome the lovely Sue – aka S.C. – Ransom in my school, and what a great morning it was. This was the second author visit I had organised at my new school since starting there in January (the first one, you might remember, was with Cat Clarke). I first “met” Sue on Twitter …
The day I met Cat Clarke …
Organising author visits in schools is one of the best things about being a school librarian. I know my children are very lucky that we take them to literary festivals and to the theatre; for most children, author school visits is often their only opportunity to meet a writer “in the flesh” and it is a very …