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These are our Top 50 Authors

(books borrowed by our students over the last year):

1	Robert Muchamore	26	Clive Gifford
2	Alan Gibbons	27	Sophie McKenzie
3	Anthony Horowitz	28	Rick Riordan
4	Charlie Higson	29	Yamin Ma & Xinying Li
5	Jeff Kinney	30	J K Rowling
6	Michael Morpurgo	31	Chris Bradford
7	Darren Shan	32	Sue Limb
8	Suzanne Collins	33	Pittacus Lore
9	Jacqueline Wilson	34	Julie Bertagna
10	Derek Landy	35	Andy Briggs
11	John Townsend	36	Ally Carter
12	J R R Tolkien	37	Rebecca Lim
13	Philip Reeve	38	Hilary McKay
14	Michael Grant	39	Rosalind Mist & Andrew Solway
15	Paul Strathern	40	Alyson Noel
16	Matt Groening	41	Christopher Paolini
17	Alexander Gordon Smith	42	Helen Reynolds
18	Garth Nix	43	Giles Sparrow
19	Brian Knapp	44	Anne Cassidy
20	Malorie Blackman	45	Sue Penney
21	Anita Ganeri	46	Louis Sachar
22	Veronica Roth	47	Vivienne Sanders
23	M G Harris	48	Cath Senker
24	Lincoln  Peirce	49	Kelley Armstrong
25	Mark Walden	50	Rachel Caine

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Many thanks to Alan Gibbons for a fantastic day!

Students from Year 5 to 7 enjoyed an Author Talk from Alan in the morning. They really enjoyed his sense of humour and also finding out about how he became a writer.

Year 8 students had Creative Writing Sessions and wrote the beginnings of stories about vampires and werewolves – scary stuff!

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Alan Gibbons’ Day

These are some of the comments from our Year 8 students:

“He taught me how to make simple sentences interesting”.

“The bit I liked most was writing the story. It really helped with my skills.”

“It was interesting and fun at the same time.”

“He helped me realise that you can’t just run into the exciting part of the story and that each little bit is just as important.”

“Alan has a good sense of humour and I liked how he did impressions.”

“I really liked his sense of humour and the way he spoke was so inspiring. I liked how he could make up a great story in a couple of paragraphs.”

“He was funny and made me laugh. I think the writing task was OK.”

“…he explained it (the writing task) well and interacted with you and he knew what way we wanted to hear it, not the boring long way.”

These are some of the comments from our Year 7 students:

“He was funny and seemed to be passionate about his writing. When he was talking about the different genres he seemd to have written loads.”

“I liked his humour and jokes, especially when he was talking about his life and book awards.”

“He was funny and he was very inspirational. I think the way he told us about each book was very helpful.”

“I really liked how he was really funny when he described his childhood and how he described his books.”

“He was funny and I thought he was going to be boring but he wasn’t. He was easy to listen to.”

“I liked that he was really happy and he told us about his past. I liked that he told us about his books.”

“… it was action packed, funny and dealt well with the questions.” “Rating out of 10 – 100!”

“He was hilarious and made me cry laughing!”

“Overall it was great.”

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Yes, this famous, award-winning children’s author is visiting us on Monday 18 June.

He will be giving an Author Talk to students from Years 6 and 7, then Creative Writing workshops with Year 8.

To find out more about Alan Gibbons, and see the full programme for the day, why not visit our Guide – click on the image below:

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