Children's Author Julia Golding visits school 9th October 2009

Celebrating Book Week - Pupils entranced by mythical creatures and times gone by...

Imaginations were captured last Thursday when the internationally acclaimed children’s author, Julia Golding, visited Palmers Green High School as part of the school’s planned celebrations for National Children’s Book Week. Pupils from Palmers Green High School and Hazelwood Junior School thoroughly enjoyed the author reading her own books and engaging them in imaginative role play activities.

Julia Golding visits Palmers Green High School

The children were treated to extracts from her first novel 'The Diamond of Drury Lane', a story about the theatre set in 1790 which won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and Nestle Children’s Book Prize in 2006. They also had the opportunity to dress up as some of her favourite characters from the book.
Megan Calcott who was so inspired by The Companions Quartet series that she has read it dozens of times, was delighted to meet Julia in person and have her own personal set signed by the author.

She said, “ I read the first book , ‘Secret of the Sirens’ and was instantly addicted and carried onto to read the rest of the quartet. Her writing is so fluent and descriptive – it’s amazing!”

The Companions Quartet series (Secret of the Sirens, The Gorgon's Gaze, Mines of the Minotaur and The Chimera's Curse) is a series surrounding mythical creatures which leaves children spellbound.