Merstham Library are correlating lots of fun ideas for kids doing home-schooling and so I thought I’d help out with some writing prompts for 7 to 9 year olds. Here is a picture from one of my stories: Can you write how Lucy the Lightning bug is scaring off the toad and his gang with her super fast flying?

I was asked to answer some questions for the Merstham Library’s ‘Afternoon tea with’. As a writer, what is your favourite childhood book? Too many! The wonderful thing about being a parent is re-visiting your favourite books that you read as a child and also discovering new ones. I am just as excited on a trip to the library as my children (possibly more so). My parents tell me that, as a child, I loved books and would spend ages looking at all the details in the Richard Sca