Both classes recently enjoyed a trip to Wigtown Book Festival to hear from authors.
First of all, Renita Boyle led us in a sing-along session to warm us up! Primary 5-7 heard from Phil Earle and Cathy Mc Phail. Primary 1-4 saw Shoo Raynor and Emily Dodd. A great time was had by all!
Phil Earle told hilarious stories and kept the audience laughing with his inventive stories. We heard all about how he came to write “Demolition Dad”. Cathy Mc Phail’s books were very different. They were very dark and almost scary! We all saw a trailer to advertise “Another me” one of her books which has now been made into a film.
Emily Dodd told us about her book ‘Can’t Dance Cameron’ . This is all about a sad capercaillie called Cameron who believes he is a rubbish dancer. We talked about lots of types of Scottish wildlife when reading the story – a pine-marten, a red squirrel and a wildcat. By the end of a story, Cameron shows he is a great dancer. Some of us bought this story and Emily signed it.
Shoo Rayner is an author and illustrator. His latest book is called Dragon Gold and is about Harri who is set the challenge of ‘making’ a dragon for school! Shoo also has two YouTube channels about drawing. Why not Google these and try out one of his tutorials?
Our very own Euan was chosen from the audience to try drawing with Shoo. What an excellent job he did! Check out the photos to see for yourself!
Quite a few of us bought Shoo’s book which he signed too.
We had such lovely days in Wigtown and the children were so well behaved. Smiles all round!
