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I’ve had an interesting summer. I took a writing workshop for adults at the These Three Streams festival in the fantastic historical village of Llantwit Major on June 11th, then had a lovely dose of Henry VIII’s favourite illness, gout – not much fun! But I did manage to take a BBC Webinar for their…

Free stories

Stories here can be downloaded for free! A free KS1 springtime musical based on my quarter-million selling picture book You’re A Hero Daley B can be found here. Free poems can be found here. First published by Ginn in 1995, Mark Two quickly became a literacy hour favourite in hundreds of schools. It’s the story…

Author visits

As well as being the author of over sixty books, I’ve been devoted to teaching all my life, qualifying in 1979 as a secondary English and Drama teacher and going on to teach at every level of the education system. Since becoming a published author in 1984 I have visited hundreds (if not thousands!) of…