Cathy Cassidy

On World Book Day, and as part of our Spring Read, a group of S1 girls visited Stewarton Academy to meet best selling author Cathy Cassidy.

She not only told us about all her books, but about how she gets the ideas to write them. She spoke a lot about how useful day-dreaming is -i think a lot of us were very pleased to hear that!

You can find out more about Cathy Cassidy by checking out her website which is http://www.cathycassidy.com/

If you met her at Stewarton Academy why not tell her what you thought on her website.

The Reading Club speak...

...about their meeting with Catherine MacPhail.

I really enjoyed my visit to meet Catherine MacPhail. I loved the fact that she made up stories on the spot and used our names in them. Some of the stories were very funny and some were quite spooky.
Caitlin, S1

Catherine MacPhail was excellent! She told us all about how she makes her stories and what inspired her to write them. She answered all our questions about her books and made up stories on the spot! She really was brilliant.
Eilidh, S1

She told us stories from her books and some she made up after taking names and words from the audience. She gave us a little advice about how to write our own stories. I really enjoyed meeting Catherine MacPhail last wednesday.
Carrie, S1

For more info about Catherine check out her website http://www.macphailbooks.com/ and why not borrow one of books from the LRC. The Nemesis series is very popular at the moment and I can highly recommend Worse Than Boys and Catch Us If You Can.

Catherine Macphail

On Wednesday the Reading Club popped along the road to the local library to meet Catherine Macphail. We thorougly enjoyed hearing all about how she comes to write her stories and where she gets her ideas from. But I am not going to say anymore about the visit as the Reading Club will be sharing their views here next week.