If I have to bring to mind one school that I’ve had a great friendship with over the past few years, it has to be the Jerzy Noskiewicz Primary School in Tanowo. They’ve just held their latest Interschool Literary Competition based on the Saltamontes Chronicles...
5 November I met the pupils at Primary School No. 45, which has a special needs department, in Szczecin. To be honest, these are the meetings I like the best. Because of the children, because of the school (there’s just something about it :-), because of the...
A big Thank You to all of you who came to visit me at the 22nd International Book Fair in Krakow this weekend. Thanks to all of you who, like me, believe that we can do something for future generations to improve mutual understanding and, regardless of where we come...
My books have lots of fans at this school. It’s really lovely to hear, ‘Your stories are great and we love reading them as set books in our Polish lessons.’ That’s good news indeed, but best of all is that both pupils and teachers love the trilogy. There was no end to...
This entire event was organised by several dozen people who included children, Polish teachers and librarians. They had worked months and months to put on an amazing session, during which the children read out the first part in the Saltamontes Chronicles trilogy –...