World Book Day is the day I could hire myself out on twenty times over. It expands, inevitably, into World Book Week, and saw me teaching kids as far apart as Paisley, Chelsea, Leighton Buzzard, and Camberley.
Renfrewshire Libraries were the first to bagsy me for this week and, to add to the Book Week confusion, they promote my classes (and a raft of others) under the banner of Will Eisner Week, something I didn't even bother trying to explain to the kids this time around, cos I doubt there will ever be a primary school pupil who will ever have any awareness of the works of Will Eisner.
They were two fun groups, from local schools working in two different libraries, and they came up with some good comics. This was followed by me meeting up with Frank Plowright for the first time in ages, then performing Post Office Scandal The Musical with the Socks, in Paisley Central Library in the evening. Quite the full day.
South Camberley was another return booking, and another dressing up day. The head mentioned that I'd drawn Harley Quinn on the flipchart last year and that maybe I should avoid something so adult this time round. And who should be sitting in the front row as I begin one of the two assemblies of the day? A year 5 kid dressed as Harley Quinn. They came up with great stuff, as always.
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