On Wednesday we had the opportunity to meet a children’s author, Julia Jarman. In class we have been reading one of her books’ Fussy Freda so it was wonderful to be able to meet her and ask her lots of questions which we had prepared together. Julia read Fussy Freda and then answered our very interesting questions. She talked about how she wrote her stories and showed us how she recorded her ideas before sending the story off to the illustrator. It was fascinating and it has inspired us to write our own class book which we might base on our Christmas Trip. After meeting her some children had their own Fussy Freda book signed by her and she also wrote a message in our class book.

The children were highly motivated by the session and Lillie summed the visit up by saying “I can’t believe I’ve met a real author!”