
Positively Teenage becomes real – and breaks a machine
Last week, I did something I’ve never had the chance to do: I watched one of my books being printed. My 100th title, Positively Teenage!
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Last week, I did something I’ve never had the chance to do: I watched one of my books being printed. My 100th title, Positively Teenage!
The celebrification of children’s literature is not new but it reached what my mother-in-law used to call a “peak low” with the list of books
I was so thrilled to get the news from Walker Books that the Reading Agency has reported huge extra library borrowings of the 35 books on
This is a bit of a strange one. Back in 2015, my younger daughter, Rebecca, and a friend, Caroline Bartleet, who were working for a
I’m doing a Diploma in Youth Counselling and very interesting it is, too. I’m not planning to be a counsellor but I’m often approached by teenagers
Factual books don’t get many chances to win awards so I was thrilled when The Teenage Guide to Stress was shortlisted for the fabulous School
A few weeks ago, I joined the band of people who work while walking. I type and do almost all my desk work while walking on
I went swimming in an actual swimming-pool yesterday. I’m still recovering from the trauma. I hadn’t been to a public pool (and I don’t have
One of my favourite occupations! It’s amazing they let me into schools nowadays, to be honest. This was part of Larbert High School’s S2 trip
Today, on the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1, I’m thinking about my grandfather, Harry Robert Spencer. He was (like many others) too young
A lovely thing happened the other day. I heard that I’d been named an Enterprise in Education Champion. Larbert High School didn’t tell me they
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