Authors Go Live!
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| 11:25 UK time, Thursday, 4 March 2010
We're excited here in Pacific Quay as we're hosting the first Authors Live event in conjunction with the today to mark .
Former Children's Laureate will be talking about his work, answering questions and reading to schools all over the country.The Scottish Book Trust have been running live author events for some time now, but this is the first one that we've been involved with and we're delighted to be a part of such an exciting venture.
Michael is one of the country's most exciting poets for young people (though lots of us not-so-young readers love his poems too!) and a wonderful performer of his own work. There was a morning event at 10.30am for primaries and there is a secondary event at 2pm, all available on the Authors Live website, so it's all go here at the moment!
The event will also be available through for schools in Scotland, and there are teaching resources available on the
There are more exciting authors coming up in the series, and next up is Julia Donaldson on 26th May. Who knows, maybe the Gruffalo might make an appearance!
I'll try and send a few tweets during the event for those of you who can't watch live, but if you're able to I think it will be well worth watching. Follow and on Twitter, or even better, tune in and see for yourself!
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At 4th Mar 2010, Linda Abela wrote:The Staff and children of P4 at Davidson's Mains would like to express their appreciation of an excellent performance. The children were enthralled throughout and loved joining in with all the parts Michael encouraged. We are now all using his idea of short ideas that interest us and are putting it to good use by writing our own Haikus.
We are really looking forward to signing up to listen to Julia Donaldson.
Thank you for this event.
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At 14th Jul 2010, Claire OGallagher ´óÏó´«Ã½ wrote:Hi Linda, thanks for your comment - great to hear that the children and staff of Davidson's Mains enjoyed the Michael Rosen event - I hope they had fun with Julia Donaldson and Michael Morpurgo too. More Authors Live events are coming in the new term!
Claire
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