Books, Picture Books and their place in Literature
Michael made it very clear that it was very much a partnership, that children read the whole page, the words and pictures together. It was not the case that the…
I don't take umbrage. I take up my pen
Michael made it very clear that it was very much a partnership, that children read the whole page, the words and pictures together. It was not the case that the…
Today I joined the Creative Writing Group at the Maggie Centre in Manchester for the launch of Brambles a pamphlet of poems by my daughter Katie. For those who may…
Today I saw an example of a true lie. Every fact in the graphic above is true. The meaning given to those facts is false. This is government misinformation in…
I recommend Dave Middleton’s blog post Towards Peace and Justice about the recent initiative from Jeremy Corbyn to establish The Project For Peace and Justice. Like Dave I welcome this…
When I started reading Kate Clanchy’s How to Grow Your Own Poem I got the idea that I could work through it, reading the poems and writing my own. And…
With the exception of the anti-vaxxers and the Covid deniers, most of us will surely welcome the success of the vaccine programme. It is rare success for a government that…