Lari’s Writing blog

World Book Day is (and should be) a busy day for authors. I was in Bonnyrigg Library in the morning yesterday, and met a couple of very enthusiastic P6 classes from Bonnyrigg Primary, who asked some really excellent questions, and had a wonderfully gory collective imagination for inventing monsters. Then I hurtled into Edinburgh to meet more than 200 pupils at the lovely Flora Stevenson Primary School, and lots of them were dressed as their favourite book characters. Which gave me the wonderful opportunity to say things like “What do you think, Mr Gum?” and “Do you have an idea for defeating the monster, Fili and Kili?” (they’re experts at that sort of thing, being from the Hobbit) and “What’s your question, Pippi Longstocking?” There’s only one day a year you get to say things like that and not get very funny looks! There was also someone dressed as a faun from First Aid, with splendid furry shorts, which was the highlight of my day…

Hope you all had a great World Book Day, and if you want to tell me who you dressed up as, just get in touch!