Kate Wakeling and Eilidh Muldoon interview
Tagged author interviews, children's poetry, illustration, illustrators, KS1
A Dinosaur at the Bus Stop
Kate Wakeling and Eilidh Muldoon talk to Nikki Gamble about writing and illustrating poetry and introduce their collection A Dinosaur at the Bus Stop.
Kate reads poems covering the themes of humour, empathy, movement, music, and poems with curriculum connections. And answers audience questions.
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03:16 Welcome and introduction
06:44 Kate talks about writing poetry for younger children
08:35 Humour
18:18 Empathy and Children’s Interests
32:28 Curriculum Connections
35:40 Kate answers audience questions
37:40 Eilidh Muldoon talks about illustrating the poems
48:03 Poems with movement
53:00 More audience questions
1:00:52 Poetry and Music
Kate won the CLiPPA award for her debut children’s poetry collection. Moon Juice which is included in our Take One Book resource.
This post was written by Nikki Gamble
Nikki GambleFormerly a teacher (secondary and primary) and university lecturer, with over 40 years’ experience, Nikki is Director of Just Imagine. She has worked extensively in schools across the UK and internationally. She is the author of Exploring Children’s Literature now in its fourth edition (Sage, 2019) and co-author of Guiding Readers, winner of the UKLA Academic Book Award (UCL, 2016). Nikki runs workshops for teachers, librarians, students and researchers on different aspects of children's literature, an online summer school and hosts literary events. Contact nikki@justimagine.co.uk