News
FEATURED ARTICLE
The Child in the Snow
Posted on June 20, 2021
Thrilled to announce that following Christmas Carol, A Sunday Times Best Christmas Show of 2019 and the much-loved The Box of Delights, I am returning…
Ideas to entertain lockdown children from Katherine Rundell!
Posted on April 28, 2020
Here are some brilliant ideas to entertain lockdown children. Award-winning children’s author, Katherine Rundell, has edited The Book of Hopes: Words and Pictures to Comfort, Inspire and Entertain Chi…
Write At Home 2
Posted on March 25, 2020
Are the children eating the furniture? Are you getting no work done whatsoever? Is Joe Wicks reducing you to a gibbering wreck? QUICK! A ten minute creative writing reprieve, just long enough to…
Storystarters
Posted on March 23, 2020
During the schools closure, in addition to my daily storytime on weekdays (2.30pm, Instagram Live), I’m also going to be creating and sharing some creative writing resources and tips for your children…
Corona Virus – Update
Posted on March 19, 2020
I hope everyone is keeping safe at this challenging time for us all. Sadly all my school and public events are either cancelled or postponed, check back for details in due course. If you want to stay…
Adapting Christmas Carol
Posted on December 11, 2019
When Charles Dickens published his ‘little Christmas book’ in 1843, it took just six weeks for the first adaptation to reach the stage. It played in London for more than forty nights before transferri…
Christmas Carol – Schools Drawing Competition
Posted on September 30, 2019
To celebrate the forthcoming Wilton’s Music Hall production of my new play Christmas Carol – a fairy tale they are running a drawing competition for Key Stage 2 (Years 3 – 6). We would like you to dra…