Being a children’s author with an ethos of kindness, I can’t help but think about my school days, remembering a teacher I had who was, without exaggeration, cruel. It wouldn’t be allowed to happen today – a teacher hitting a child for no good reason, or hitting a child at all! And meted out humiliation
Welcome to Fish Face Publishing! Exciting times are ahead with the launch of my new series’ Mincemeat’s World of Adventures’. Meantime let me help with the stresses of lockdown and everybody being home, by taking the kids off your hands with my free online fun writing workshops for children aged 7 up. My workshop ‘HOW TO BUILD A STORY’ comes
To say we all lived and continue to live through such challenging times is an understatement. Being creatures who naturally crave contact with each other, lockdown brought to the fore mental health issues many of us were completely taken aback by. Feelings of isolation and uncertainty tested our sense of wellbeing and security in such
I’m no longer working at the kitchen table! The year is 2013. It’s May, and just before what would have been my dad’s birthday. My son and his family moved to Brazil. It wasn’t a plan to sit around heartbroken. Instead, I began writing letters to my twin grandkids in story form, and what emerged,