Introducing Today's Kids to Alexander

[ruthaki]

I read from my novel and talked about writing to a grade six class in an inner city school today. It gave me a chance to introduce Alexander, and to tell them how I got interested in him when I was 16 and began writing about him. I don't know if it made any impression, although one boy asked me after when my book might be published as he'd like to read it. Mostly they were intrigued by the real (but dead) scarab beetle I brought to show them (illustrating a passage in the reading). Well, anything to jog an interest in these young minds!

[marcus]

Well done, Ruth. Anything we can do to help with the educative process, and particularly in introducing Alexander.It's also nice to know that the children are sufficiently interested to want to read your book - all the more reason to get it on the bookshelves, I'd say!You have a real scarab beetle? I'm getting more worried about you every day, Ruth :-)Marcus