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ShoutWest! Festivals

I love working with fellow authors of CWISL (Children’s Writers & Illustrators for Stories and Literacy), giving events for young readers and writers. ShoutWest! 2021, the 6th wonderful CWISL creative writing festival for young people in Hillingdon, West London, took place this year. It’s an annual event, and this years was an exciting change as we had to go online and virtual to deliver inspite of the Coronovirus pandemic!

To see the kind of fun we have, watch this video from a previous live and in-person festival.

We also run a parallel festival ShoutSouth! at London South Bank University. For more information on CWISL take a look at our website www.cwisl.org.uk

Shakespeare’s Tales

HAMLET

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

OTHELLO

THE TEMPEST

Illustrations by Stephen Lambert

Some of Stephen’s illustrations

extract from The Tempest

… an old face, etched with the lines of time and scored with a lifetime’s wisdom. In his eyes there were glimmerings, flickerings, mysterious lights that echoed the silver of his hair and beard: gold, like the gold of a sunrise yet to come, red, like the fire that had consumed the ship, blue, like the sea seared by the lightning’s flash.

In his eyes there was a story yet untold. It stirred angrily within him as he watched the dying ship.

He wore a robe, dark, rich and heavy. The garment swayed, a strange, rhythmic movement of deep folds like secret caverns ripe with mysteries: fear, hope, knowledge, all were woven deep within its fabric, for there was magic in the web of it.

In his hand the old man held a staff, a gnarled wooden stick. Yet it was more, much more. It waited in his hand, as though it rested, as though no more than thought, no more than an eyelid’s wink would fire its length with secret power. At his side there lay a book, red-bound and heavy, its pages worn with use, thumbed, scored, and learned, for they were pages saturated with the secrets of the enchanter’s art.

‘True to the power and poetry of the original plays, these dramatic retellings will help attract the reluctant and the intimidated to the pleasures of Shakespeare.’

Booklist

‘Superbly retold’

The Young Reader

‘Highly recommended’

The Book Report

‘all the wonder is retained and the difficulty lessened’

Meadowcreek Learning Resources Centre

‘captures the power and humour of the original plays’

Educational Media & Technology

[published by Hodder Children’s Books]

Gulliver’s Travels

Gulliver is shipwrecked and washed ashore on the exotic island of Lilliput – where the people are small enough to fit into the palm of a man’s hand. It’s just the start of Gulliver’s unbelievable adventure.

A retelling of one of the most exciting fantasy stories ever written – Jonathan’s Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
This is only the first part of Gulliver’s marvellous travels. Later voyages take him to the land of the giants, to a flying island, and finally to a land of talking horses.

Illustrated by David Roberts

some pages from the book

[Gulliver’s Travels published by Hodder Wayland]

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