Dave Cousins

Energetic and funny! Two words pupils used to describe the award-winning author and illustrator, Dave Cousins, who entertained Ingrams this morning. Dave spoke about his life and the experiences that led him to become an author. Plenty of hilarious and lively anecdotes about childhood dreams, song writing and his own family’s misadventures fuelled his presentation. Dave also spent time with members of the readers group answering a myriad of questions from ‘Which superpower would you wish for?’ (to be able to fly) to ‘Which of your characters would you like to be?’ (the dog).  A real treat for Ingrams who have hopefully been inspired to pick up a book and escape into another world. 

Matt Dickinson

Matt Dickinson couldn't make it on 23rd March - hoping for a visit in May!

Festival of Imagined Worlds

Fantasy literature is renowned for bringing ancient civilisations and contemporary fiction together. You only have to think of the success of Percy Jackson, Harry Potter and Kate O’Hearn’s Pegasus series to know that the classics still have a relevance for today’s young readers. It was with this in mind that the Kimbookworms ventured to Oxford to explore how ancient myths and histories have inspired our favourite literary worlds.

The Iris Festival of Imagined Worlds offered a chance to meet authors and illustrators and to walk through different fictional worlds with workshops and activities based on Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll and J.K. Rowling. We were able to see costumes from the Lord of the Rings films, handle ancient artefacts from the Ashmolean Museum, write in Elvish and even have our futures read with some tea leaf divination! The visit finished with a chance to take tea in the Alice in Wonderland café and make some booky purchases.

The chance to dress up as characters from our favourite fictional worlds couldn’t be missed either. Here are some of the Kimbookworms preparing for our journey with some wizarding magic.

http://www.eoccc.org.uk/iris-festival-of-imagined-worlds 

Competition time

More World Book Day activities - a Character Hunt, Book in the Jar and cakes of course!

Happy World Book Day!

Lots of extreme reading going on at Kimbolton School for World Book Day today. Staff took the opportunity to get caught reading over half term whilst pupils have been invited to send in their photos for a WBD competition. Cakes, quizzes and competitions are making sure everyone celebrates in some way!