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Examples of Visits/workshops/Events
Writing Non-fiction
This event looks at how to go about tackling a non-fiction writing project, from selecting your topic to making sure that you’ve got your facts right and ensuring your audience can’t wait to read your work. It uses examples from my science and history books.
Writing About History
This is a project delivered over 2 or 3 one-hour sessions, suitable for P5-S2. Session 1 looks at identifying resources, using research for A Secret Diary of the First World War as the main example.
Fiction
Ages 3-6 Events based round my picture books Lost at the Zoo and The Giant Panda Party, both of which are set in Edinburgh Zoo. Ages 8-12 Events can be based round my Edinburgh-set novels The Chaos Clock and The Chaos Quest, or my Fife-based novels Winterbringers and Dark Spell. Ages 11-14 Events can be based round my teen fantasy novels Beneath and The Keepers’ Daughter.
Science Workshop for ages 10-14
Who is Dracula? A fun, interactive workshop developed with fellow scientist Doug MacDonald, which uses the scenario of vampirism in a village to demonstrate how infectious diseases can spread and how the source can be traced. The perfect complement to Microbe Wars.
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Ten years ago, Alaric, leader of the Shadowmen, killed many of the Keepers - the teachers and bearers of ancient knowledge threatening his barbaric rule. Now rebellion is flaring up in the Archipelago again and the Shadowmen are out hunting for Keepers once more. Fourteen-year-old, Nyssa, and her uncle, Marius, descendants of the Keepers, must flee, but there is a greater reason that Nyssa is in danger.....