Edinburgh Book Festival
On Tuesday 1st September Primaries 3, 5 and 7 went to the Edinburgh Book Festival. When we got there Primary 3 saw the first author while primaries 5 and 7 were having their break. After break we all got to go to the bookshop. In the bookshop there were lots of books, even some CDs. Most people bought a book.
Next we got to meet the author. His name was Barry Hutchison. He told us about three different books that he has written. ‘The Shark Headed Bear Thing’, ‘The Swivel Eyed Ogre Thing’ and ‘The Moon Faced Ghoul Thing’ (which is coming out at Halloween).
He likes to write scary, funny, monster fiction books. He told us a little bit about himself when he was a little boy. Can you believe he is scared of squirrels!? As part of the workshop we had to create a monster. Barry asked us what features we would like the monster to have and then he drew them. We decided to give it a crocodile face, wasp eyes and a squirrel body and tail.
It was a great day and we felt very lucky. The best bit of the whole day was getting to see Barry Hutchison.
By Zidane & Sophia P5
