Friday 24 February 2017

Badger Bill

Hello again

We've had such a lovely morning.  Alison Kennedy arrived early at our school (very impressed) and enjoyed watching our assemblies.

She was then invited to our fantastic library to be interviewed for Live at Five.

After that, our selected audience were given copies of "Uncle Shawn and Bill" and we all settled down to hear Alison read.  Next, it was question time  - and what a lot of interesting questions were posed by our enthusiastic readers.  Alison answered every one with patience and humour.

She happily signed each and every copy of the book and everyone went away very pleased indeed.

So we want to say thank you very much, Alison, for coming to our school and you are welcome to come back any time.  We enjoyed listening to you and enjoyed your company.

You can see a few photos on our Twitter feed and of course, tell your friends about our blog.

The programme is scheduled to be broadcast on Monday evening but could be put back to Tuesday.  STV will email a link and we'll put it out on Twitter.  Stay tuned!

Next Thursday is World Book Day and we are delighted to welcome back our friend, Lari Don who will be sharing exciting extracts from her Spellchasers series.

Keep checking in with the blog and you might even see some of your favourite book characters next week!

Happy reading
Your friendly book clubbers.








We're excited!

Hello

It's Friday and we're really excited about our book event this morning.

Alison Kennedy will be visiting Flora Stevenson Primary to promote her new book "Uncle Shawn and Bill".

And...the event is going to be filmed by STV for their magazine programme "Live at Five".

We'll let you know how it went.  Just keep following the blog and you'll learn all about the reading journey at Flora Stevenson.

See you later.


Sunday 19 February 2017

We're back

Hello Everyone

Long time since you heard from us!  Not to worry - we are still reading and Book Club is thriving.  We now meet on Wednesdays at 1pm in the school library.  Everyone is welcome to join us.  There are many new books to read and our library stock has also been refreshed.

So what's new?  This is a very exciting time for us,  On Friday, 24th February we are hosting a visit from A L Kennedy.  Alison is an established author of adult fiction and non-fiction and has now turned her hand to writing for children.  We are delighted to welcome her to Flora Stevenson School and look forward to discussing her book in Book Club.

The following week is Book Week and of course World Book Day is on Thursday, 2nd March.  To celebrate the day we are so pleased to welcome back our favourite author and friend, Lari Don.  As you know, Lari has visited our school on many previous occasions and it is always a delight when she agrees to come again.  Look out for colourful and creative costumes depicting our best loved book characters.

We hope you will keep reading and join us next time for an update on Alison's visit.

Till then, happy reading

Your friendly Book Clubbers.