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Jonathan Stroud visits school in Lancashire
More than 100 school children from across Lancashire flocked to Kirkham this week to meet highly acclaimed children’s fantasy author Jonathan Stroud [link to biography].
Stroud visited Carr Hill High School and Sixth Form Centre to talk to pupils from a number of local schools as part of a UK tour to promote his latest book Heroes of the Valley.
The Hertfordshire-based Fantasy writer, who is best known as the author of the Bartimaeus trilogy, has written six novels in total and sold over four million books worldwide
Jonathan Stroud said: “It’s really important for the kids and the author, for everyone to meet. It’s not much good me just sitting for hours at a time writing. By meeting like this I can see what they are interested in and whether they like the books. It’s also really useful for them that they get to see what being an author is all about.”
Carr Hill regularly invites authors to talk to students and for this visit the school welcomed pupils from Kirkham Grammar School, Baines High School Poulton, and Preston’s Moor Park High School and Our Lady’s Catholic High to also take part.
Source: Lytham St Annes Express
Jonathan Stroud was born in Bedford and grew up in St Albans. He always had a burning desire to write a full-length work of fiction which he would have wanted to read when he was younger, and so after graduating from York University he embarked on a publishing and writing career in the game book and non-fiction department at Walker Books. He moved to Kingfisher Publications to edit children’s non-fiction, and for a time juggled working with writing; but Jonathan is now a full-time writer.
Posted: February 6th, 2009
Author: Lee
Categories: Jonathan Stroud
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