What fun we had celebrating World Book Day – or week – this year. Of course reading is something that can be enjoyed every day, but I also love the fact that World Book Day brings people together to share their excitement about stories.

Our week began in our local Tarbert, Harris library, where Rory (the dragon from Rory and the Snack Dragons) ‘lost’ lots of his little dragon friends among the shelves. Luckily, we had help to find them, and want to say a big thank you to all the school-children who searched and helped us find the baby dragons and their eggs throughout the week.

The dragon theme continued through the week as we visited schools to share Rory’s first story and to start to introduce his second adventure, which will be out next month. There was singing, dancing and flying paper dragon crafting.

We finished the week with a trip to Inverness Waterstones, where we got to meet fellow authors Barbara Henderson and Catherine MacCulloch, and to be part of the Eastgate Centre’s Book Drive, supporting local children’s charity Halo.