One of my television songs, A SQUASH AND A SQUEEZE, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. It was great to hold the book in my hand without it vanishing in the air the way the songs did. This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published. Most children love acting and it’s a tremendous way to improve their reading. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-06-11 02:02:56 Associated-names Roberts, David, 1970- Boxid IA1823112 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA18131 Openlibrary_edition A set of Thinking Hat resources have kindly been contributed by Peter Fogarty (see Resources below). Granny caught the moozles. Make a poster to teach people how to stay healthy and try to avoid catching colds.

I also continued to write “grown-up” songs and perform them in folk clubs and on the radio, and have recently released two CDs of these songs. I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him). Funnily enough, I find it harder to write not in verse, though I feel I am now getting the hang of it! My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old. I have just finished writing a novel for teenagers.

Other subjects- please find below an overview of the other subject lesson activities for this week.

Before Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country; the best one was in Italian about pasta. come high up onto our tiptoes very quietly), he listened to the tunes. He put down the flumflum and he grabbed the I really enjoy writing verse, even though it can be fiendishly difficult. I used to memorise poems as a child and it means a lot to me when parents tell me their child can recite one of my books. Look at the different colour and shades used in the story. Can you use different art materials to create shades of the same colour?

lift up one foot, then the other foot, and one hand and no hands) and he found a crew: Rose and Stu. Granny came down My real breakthrough was THE GRUFFALO, again illustrated by Axel. We work separately - he’s in London and I’m in Glasgow - but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes. I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married.