An important turning point in Heidi comes when in Chapter 10 “another grandmother” comes to visit Clara and Heidi in Frankfurt and shows Heidi a book: “For a moment or two she looked at it with brightening eyes, then the tears began to fall, and at last she burst into sobs. The grandmother looked at the pictureContinue reading “‘Heidi’ – an unschooling Classic? Part 2 – Learning to read”
Category Archives: Reading
I’m now on YouTube
After being asked to create some videos for a local library, I now have a YouTube channel. You can find a reading from my novel, an interview (without the interviewer, because we are in lockdown after all), and a couple of creative writing videos. I hope to add to these creative writing exercises over time,Continue reading “I’m now on YouTube”
An intriguing painting: an intriguing story
This is ‘The Calling of Saint Matthew’ painted in 1661 by Juan de Pareja. Who he?
Please join me for Afternoon Tea
On Wednesday 13th May at 3pm, I’ll be at Merstham Library (virtually of course) to answer questions about my novel, Between Darkness and Light, and to read an extract from the book. I’ll send out further details closer to the date and hope you can join me there!
Catching up on reading under lockdown
Introducing a new reading group
Now that we have lots of time to read, I am pleased to introduce a new reading group that focuses on children’s books. In this first episode I introduce the group and our first book – Hilda van Stockum’s The Mitchells: Five for Victory. https://anchor.fm/roy-peachey0/embed/episodes/Introducing-a-childrens-book-club-ebnbj9/a-a1nvknb
Reading Reconsidered
I am currently reading Reading Reconsidered and will review it properly in the next week or so. However, I couldn’t resist mentioning a couple of statistics from the book (both from page 210) before I do so:
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