Skype Lessons
17th Dec 2018
																		
												In the last little while I have presented  lessons over Skype. The first was in Georgia, USA, and the second in Utah, USA. It was a delight for me to face a group of children and give a talk. I find that working out what is important and what I want to impart helps focus… Read					
												Recently, while away from home, I ran out of books to read. Scanning the shelves to see what was available to me at that location, I picked up a copy of The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling.   I began to read and I couldn’t put the book down. I was particularly taken with the… 
												Recently, I was asked to speak at a library on the subject of Family Literacy. The more I thought about it the more interesting I found the subject. There is so much to say on this topic. Fortunately, my talk was video-taped and we have up-loaded the session to Youtube. Unfortunately, my time was up… 
												A School Visit – late October 2017 – 350 children Recently I had the opportunity to visit a school situated in North Vancouver. I was booked for four sessions with three classes attending each session. The librarian grouped the children by age so that I could tailor my talks to each learning level. I had… 
												Writing a series of books is a lot of fun.  I’m finding that as I write one story I think of lots of other ideas for new books in the series. Sometimes I even lay in little hints or ideas that I know I can pick up on in later books. I can think of… 