Eoin Colfer's Visit
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We were delighted and honoured
recently when best selling children's author,
Eoin Colfer, visited Court
NS on Thursday 11th January 2001. It was Eoin's first school
visit since he had retired from teaching to devote himself
fulltime to his writing career.
During the session he
read from "Ed's Funny Feet" (a brilliant book that he says is
based directly on himself growing up, it is suitable for younger
children and in fact many of Mr. Turner's 1st, 2nd & 3rd Class
had already read it) and then
we had a question time
when we were able to ask him anything we liked.
He then read from "Benny and Babe."
Eoin says this book is based on his holidays as a child in
Fethard-on-Sea and Slade. There are a few copies of this book in
Mrs. Parnell's class library and again many of us had read it. |
Eoin advised us to always
have a "book on the go" and if any of us were interested in writing
that we should start now and practice, practice and then practice some
more. He told us that he used to come home from school and then write
in the evening but now that he doesn't have to go to school each day
he has to discipline himself to sit down every morning and write. He
tries to write one thousand words each day which is about 5 or 6 pages
of a book. He told us that for many years he wrote in copybooks and
many of his first books are in his house in copies today. However that
meant that when he was finished writing the book he had to get
somebody to type out the book before sending it to the publisher and
this often took ages. Nowadays all his work is done on PC.
To finish off he read us the
first chapter of his new book "The Wish List" which was published just
before Christmas. We had a great laugh with Eoin who was very funny
when he read from his books and told us about himself as a child.
We were delighted to hear
that he is writing a book
"Artemis Fowl"
and this is due to be published by
Puffin
Books in May and he said
that if he is lucky it will also be made into a film. Unfortunately we
might have to wait two years or more to see it.
A great afternoon!!
All of the books
featured below are published by
O'Brien Press
and are available in all good bookshops.
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