We realised this morning that none of us had written a blog post about Simon Bartram’s visit to us. Oops. This is in no way a reflection on Simon, who was so nice we even gave him the unchipped mug for his tea. Anyway, he came and read from his new book, Bob’s Best Ever Friend, and drew a character for us (with some help from the children).

We decided afterwards that Simon would definitely win our prize for Hardest Working Author: some of the children were such avid Bob fans that they crowded round Simon, pointing out details in the illustrations and guessing what would be on the next page. At times it was so (enthusiastically) rowdy I half expected them to start a mosh pit. Full marks to Simon for handling it with aplomb! We also loved his giant blue and yellow pants, which caused more than one passerby to do a double-take into the shop window…

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