Following on from World Book Day, with support from Scottish Book Trust and the PTA, three authors visited Kirn Primary School, including multi award winning author and illustrator Debi Gliori, who dropped in on P3 and P4 this morning, to share her thoughts on writing, ideas and illustration. She showed us how to draw a bunny from an egg, mused on where the ideas for characters in her books come from, told us how she felt when she had to let one of her book characters go, and shared “What’s the Time Mr Wolf?” with us in her own amazing, energetic and enthusiastic style.

It was a real treat to hear the story told by the writer herself, to have all the details of the illustrations pointed out and to hear wee bits about how they came to be. We were all quick to spot the extra characters from fairy tale and rhyme in the story too, and had an incredible number of ideas about what was in the mermaid’s parcel, which Debi encouraged us to use to create more stories.

Afterwards, Debi said how impressed she was with how well listened and how enthusiastically we contributed our fabulous ideas.

Well done and P3 and P4!