Meeting Author Teresa Flavin

All three P6 classes gathered in Miss P.'s room to meet author and illustrator Teresa Flavin. Teresa explained what gave her inspiration for setting and character in her stories. As an illustrator, she showed us how she draws on the work of other artists for her story ideas. She also explained how she planned and drafted her ideas. Teresa proved herself a wonderful story teller as she entranced P6 with the background to her trilogy of novels and read from "The Shadow Lantern."

Teresa began as a children's book illustrator then branched out into writing art-based fantasy-mystery novels for age 9+. Her first illustrated novel, THE BLACKHOPE ENIGMA  was shortlisted for a number of UK children's book awards and was a Junior Library Guild Selection in the USA. The sequel, THE CRIMSON SHARD was a Junior Library Guild Selection for  2012. THE SHADOW LANTERN, the final book in the Blackhope Enigma trilogy, was published in 2013. 

This is Teresa's website http://www.teresaflavin.com/

Gillian from Looking Glass Bookshop in Quartermile http://lookingglassbooks.com/ brought along "The Blackhope Enigma", "The Crimson Shard" and "The Shadow Lantern." We were delighted that Gillian showed so much interest in the three books that our Primary Seven pupils have had published by Mary Turner Thomson over the last three years. It was lovely to make a connection between school and a local bookseller, almost on our doorstep.