Bollard bods

Bollard bods and the Old Sailor My Old Sailor story started life as an oral story, long before it was a book. I use it as the basis for a workshop and have collected the sea creatures he swallows. Particularly with younger children, the sea creatures props can be...

Newport Substation Art Market

 Newport Substation Art Market Yesterday was storytelling, bookreading and singing in a room to the side of the main art market space at the Newport Substation monthly Art Market. We, Jackie Kerin, myself and Dharma Picking (from Everlasting Books) had a bit of a tag...

Meet my old sailor

Meet my old sailor Boomerang Books has just engaged five bloggers to talk about books, and my friend Dee White is one of them. Yesterday she interviewed the sailor, main character in my picture book ‘There Was an Old Sailor’. You can read the interview...

Old Sailor in Woodend

Old Sailor (and Claire) in Woodend I had a lovely time in Woodend yesterday afternoon at New Leaves bookshop, reading ‘Old Sailor’. It’s a lovely bookshop with a great range of local and international titles. Well worth a visit. I took my bollard...

One day

One day I wish… Sally Murphy recently released her new verse novel, Toppling (ill Rhian Nest James, pub Walker Books) and as part of her promotion, she invited guests to talk about poetry at her blog. There’s a month worth of poetry and thoughts about...