FREE webinars for schools
FREE webinars with authors
Article dated: 18/09/2023
Schools can sign up to virtual webinars happening this week with authors Katie Kirby and Annelise Gray. Both events are suitable for years 5 to 7.
EVENT 1
Authors Aloud UK and Penguin Random House will be hosting a virtual webinar with author Katie Kirby to celebrate publication of her brilliant new novel Lottie Brooks’s Totally Disastrous School Trip, the fourth book in the hilarious Lottie Brook series
This FREE schools event will take place on Thursday 21st September 10 – 11am
The event is suitable for Years 5,6,7
Please register to attend here: https://tinyurl.com/AAUKKatieKirby231
PLEASE NOTE: IF MORE THAN ONE CLASS WILL BE ATTENDING AND LOGGING ON SEPARATELY, THEY WILL NEED TO REGISTER AS INDIVIDUAL CLASSES
Once you have registered, you will receive a confirmation email from Zoom with the link to join on the day
About the event
The fantastically funny and relatable Lottie Brooks series, written and illustrated by number one children's bestseller Katie Kirby, is filled with first experiences, friendship fails, embarrassing moments and plenty of laughs. And so is this event! Can Lottie get through term without leaving chaos in her wake, and with her BFFs intact? Join Katie to find out – and don’t forget your notebook and pens as there will be draw-along fun for all!
About the Book
Lottie Brooks continues to navigate the many perils of growing up in this fantastically funny illustrated series for a 9-12 audience, filled with friendship, embarrassing moments and plenty of lols.
"Woe is me. So much is wrong in my life... Still look like a tomato, Am stuck indoors whilst my friends go bowling without me (rude) My parents are leaving me to go out on a 'Date Night.' GROSS! After a summer of meeting handsome French boys and getting a tiny bit sunburnt. OK, fine - a lot sunburnt, Lottie's heading off on a week-long residential school trip. A whole week away from embarrassing parents and Toby's tasty air biscuits! But the trip soon turns into a total disaster. The other girls staying at the camp are MEGA-MEAN, best friend Jess is spending all her time with new girl Isha, and Lottie's diary gets stolen! Who knew a school trip could cause so much DRAMA?!"
Readers LOVE Lottie Brooks:
- My daughter couldn't put it down and read it in 2 days. Read at breakfast, walking downstairs, tea time, in the bath.
- My 9-year-old daughter devoured it in two nights, and all I could hear from her was giggling and the occasional "Mum! Listen to this! This is SO me!".
- My 12 year old reluctant reader took this book, read 100 pages in one night an proclaimed it 'the best book ever'
- Katie has managed to capture the essence of what this group think and feel in apositive, life-affirming fashion.
About the Author
Katie Kirby is a writer and illustrator who lives by the sea in Hove with her husband, two sons and dog Sasha. She has a degree in Advertising and Marketing and after spending several years working in London media agencies, which basically involved hanging out in fancy restaurants and pretending to know what she was talking about, she had some children and decided to start a blog called 'Hurrah for Gin' about the gross injustice of it all.
Many people said her sense of humour was silly and immature so she is now having a bash at writing children's fiction. Lottie Brook’s Totally Disastrous School Trip is her 4th Lottie Brook novel. Katie likes gin, rabbits, over-thinking things, the smell of launderettes and
Monster Munch. She does not like losing at board games or writing about herself in the third person.
EVENT 2
Authors Aloud UK and Zephyr will be hosting a virtual webinar with author Annelise Gray to celebrate publication of her new novel Circus Maximus: Riders of the Storm, the third book in the brilliant Circus Maximus series set in Ancient Rome and centred on the world of chariot racing
This FREE schools event will take place on Friday 22nd September 10 – 11am
The event is suitable for Years 5,6,7
Please register to attend here: https://tinyurl.com/AAUKAnneliseGray231
PLEASE NOTE: IF MORE THAN ONE CLASS WILL BE ATTENDING AND LOGGING ON SEPARATELY, THEY WILL NEED TO REGISTER AS INDIVIDUAL CLASSES
Once you have registered, you will receive a confirmation email from Zoom with the link to join on the day
About the event
Annelise Gray is the author of the action-packed historical adventure series Circus Maximus, about a young girl’s quest for sporting glory in ancient Rome. In her presentation Annelise will explain how her love of horses, history and Formula 1 inspired the character of Dido. Through images from her research, she will also show how she conjures the edge-of-your-seat chariot race scenes and plots Dido’s thrilling story through a dark and cutthroat world where winning is all that matters.
About the Book
Circus Maximus, the greatest sporting stage of the ancient Roman world, where the best horses and charioteers compete in a race to the death, and one girl dreams of glory. Ben Hur meets National Velvet in the ultimate 9-12 adventure story.
Twelve-year-old Dido dreams of becoming the first female charioteer at the great Circus Maximus. She's lost her heart to Porcellus, a wild, tempestuous horse she longs to train and race. But such ambitions are forbidden to girls and she must be content with helping her father Antonius – the trainer of Rome's most popular racing team, The Greens – and teaching the rules of racing to Justus, the handsome young nephew of the Greens' wealthy owner. When her father is brutally murdered, she is forced to seek refuge with an unlikely ally. But what of her dream of Circus triumphs and being reunited with the beloved horse she left behind in Rome? And the threat to her life isn't over as she faces a powerful and terrifying new enemy... the emperor Caligula.
About the Author
Children's author Annelise Gray was born in Bermuda and moved to the UK as a child. She grew up riding horses and dreaming of becoming a writer. After gaining a PhD in Classics from Cambridge, she worked as a researcher for authors and TV companies on topics as varied as Helen of Troy, Russian princesses and the history of labradors. She's previously published a history of the women of the Roman Empire and a crime novel set in the Roman Republic.