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Year 5 enjoy a virtual visit from children’s author Thomas Taylor whose book “Malamander”
On Friday 11th March, Year 5 enjoyed a virtual visit from children’s author Thomas Taylor whose book “Malamander” they are reading next term. Thomas introduced and talked about his Eerie-On-Sea books alongside sharing objects which have inspired him to write his story and challenged the children to start thinking of their own stories.
Thomas showed the children pieces of sea glass and explained how it is often called “mermaid’s tear”. The children then came with fantastic ideas for what an oyster shell could be such as the scale of a dragon.
He also demonstrated how ultra-violet light can make uranium sea glass create an eerie glow!
The children’s favourite of his beachcombing finds was the coprolite (fossilised dinosaur poo!).
Thomas’ favourite was a pebble he found on the beach with a cat shape on that inspired the character of Irwin in his books.
Thomas also answered questions on his books, his inspiration for writing, the process of writing, illustrating and publishing and gave tips to the children for writing their own stories and or illustrations.
