Alice Hemming

Awards

• CICBA Picture Book of the Year 2021

Organisations

• Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)
• Society of Authors (SoA)
• National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE)

Details

Booked for World Book Day 2022 and the whole of that week but some availability the weeks beginning 21st Feb and 7th March.

Now taking bookings for World Book Day 2023.

Recommendations

"The children were utterly captivated during Alice Hemming's visit to our school. She made her book come to life during the group read and helped us to understand how books are made - from concept through to production. The children produced some fantastic literacy work following Alice's inspiring visit, thank you so much!"
Ms Thomson, Applecroft School, Welwyn Garden City

“Alice delivered a variety of incredibly inspiring workshops. All staff were very impressed with the quality of teaching and activities planned. It was the most successful and memorable book week that we had ever had and I believe that Alice's workshops contributed to this fact. I fully intend on inviting her to our book week again next year!”
Ms Earl, Milwards School, Harlow

More references available on request.

About me

I am a children’s author based in Hertfordshire and have written over fifty books for children, including picture books, reading scheme and middle grade. Titles include the bestselling Dark Unicorns series (Scholastic), and picture book, The Leaf Thief with illustrator Nicola Slater (Scholastic 2020), which has sold across the world and been translated into fifteen languages. My school visits (Reception-KS2) tend to include an introductory assembly as well as workshops with individual classes.

I feel passionately about books, stories and writing and would love to come to your school to generate enthusiasm and excitement around the subject.

In the past I have worked as a professional librarian, a website editor and an Outreach manager for a university, so I have a background of working in schools.

I am DBS cleared and have liability insurance through NAWE.

About my author visits

I like to meet as many of the children as possible and will happily work with any Primary School year group, including Nursery and Reception.

A ‘typical’ visit would include a morning assembly, followed by workshops with each year group in their classrooms, but I am happy to work with an individual year group or key stage if you prefer.  Workshops I have given include the following:

Foundation: Book reading, acting out stories, Q&A, stickers for all!
KS1: Acting out stories, Creating a class poem, Character Workshop, Magic Story Bag workshop.
KS2: How an author works, Story Dice, The Cut Ups, Character Workshop.

Maybe you would like me to focus on a particular subject?  Or you currently have a particular focus, such as editing or writing?  Please let me know as I do like to work with individual schools to tailor a suitable programme.

I am also happy to talk to group of adults about writing for children or run a picture book writing workshop.

I am based in East Hertfordshire but happy to travel. I charge £400 plus expenses for a full day.

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