This got me looking at other author's websites, starting with those recommended on the Kids' Books UK blog.
So in no particular order are some of my finds:
- Andy Stanton's Mr Gum - too much to list; games, newspaper, and downloadable stuff (check out the The Mr Gum Card Game)
- Jacqueline Wilson - In the picture - create book covers and scenes of yourself in Jacqueline's books
- Julia Donaldson - around the site are some nice activity sheets to download and use, plus audio and book extracts
- Neil Gaiman - As it says on the site 'cool stuff and things' (this is secretly my favourite, I read his online Journal before blogs were invented)
- Philip Pullman - Download book extracts, other writing and audio clips
- Darren Shan - read some short stories online, plus lots more
- Benjamin Zephaniah - read poems online
- Alan Gibbons - Poems and Jottings
- JK Rowling - Get a Harry Potter fix
- Terry Deary - Extracts and games
- Eion Colfer - Artimis Fowl's Inner Circle Game
- Anne Fine - Nice notes for how to use Anne's books in schools
- Malcom Rose - His tips for writers are good
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Thanks for voting for your favourite. I did a feature on Neil Gaiman's site earlier on my blog. I can't believe I didn't include it in my list. Benjamin Zephaniah's is great too, Dorothy
Benjamin Zephaniah's home town in UK.
Portrait Of The 1985 Handsworth Riots - Pogus Caesar - BBC1 TV . Inside Out.
Broadcast 25 Oct 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey7ijaXv6UQ
Birmingham film maker and photographer Pogus Caesar knows Handsworth well. He found himself in the centre of the 1985 riots and spent two days capturing a series of startling images. Caesar kept them hidden for 20 years. Why? And how does he see Handsworth now?.
The stark black and white photographs featured in the film provide a rare, valuable and historical record of the raw emotion, heartbreak and violence that unfolded during those dark and fateful days in September 1985.
POGUS CAESAR LAUNCHES SPARKBROOK PRIDE
Birmingham-based photographer Pogus Caesar has a new book coming out, specially commissioned by Be Birmingham and published by Punch and OOM Gallery Archive.
'Sparkbrook Pride' consists of 70 black-and-white photos of residents of Sparkbrook, Birmingham – where Pogus grew up – all taken with his trademark Canon Sureshot camera.
The book also has a foreword written by Benjamin Zephaniah and an introduction by Paris-based photographer Nigel Dickinson. In the foreword Zephaniah says "I love the 'rawness' of these photos, they have a sense of place, yet nothing is staged, and the only information Pogus gives us about those featured is how they define themselves, nothing more. We need no more. So people - it is down to us to piece together the rest of this multicultural puzzle".
Last Autumn Pogus visited Sparkbrook several times, and the striking images in 'Sparkbrook Pride' are the result. Documenting the diverse individuals who live and work in the area, the book features both the long-standing residents from the West Indies, Ireland, India and Pakistan and the more recent additions to the community from Somalia, Sudan, Malawi and Afghanistan, celebrating the rich cultural mix that defines the area.
Be Birmingham, in association with Punch and OOM Gallery Archive, will launch Sparkbrook Pride in Spring 2011.
Book details. Paperback, perfect bound, 160 pages, 70 black and white photographs, 11.6 x 8.2 x 0.8 inches. ISBN: 978-0-9566741-1-1
http://www.made.org.uk/news/view/sparkbrook_pride/
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