Barton Seagrave School

Entertained 58 school children at Barton Seagrave reading extracts from Narwhal and answering questions about narwhals, Isles of Scilly, shipwrecks and Inuit legends. The pupils produced some interesting book marks with Runic designs and their names inscribed in Runes taken from the runic alphabet. I felt the numbers were too large for any in depth creative work but hope that they were sufficiently inspired to produce some written work in their own time.

Narwhal Finalist in Indie Excellence awards 2008

Just announced today. Narwhal is a finalist in the young adult section of the Indie Excellence Awards 2008 USA. I'm not yet sure what this means but I gather Narwhal will be exhibited at the New York Book Fair and given publicity in US magazines so that has to be great news.