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IN Glasgow this weekend? Why not bring the family along to the launch of the latest Hamish McHaggis book,

Hamish McHaggis and The Great Glasgow Treasure Hunt.
On Saturday  28th April I’ll be at the Kelvingrove Museum and on Sunday 29th April at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow with Hamish illustrator Sally J. Collins and you might even catch a glimpse of Hamish himself!

It’s all free and there will be lots of fun things to do.  Come and listen to the story and draw alongside Sally.  There will be activities and Sally and I will be signing books.

see the website for further details  Kelvingrove Museum

EAST LOTHIAN LAUNCH

If you live closer to Edinburgh there will be a launch at Merryhatton Garden Centre  on the afternoon of Friday 4th may. We have added an extra session due to popular demand!

Free but ticketed.  For more details see the Merryhatton website

As you may have noticed there has not been a lot posted on the website for a while, but that is because I have been so busy with school visits and also hiding in my shed writing, that I have not managed to get back to updating the website.

I am also planning a bit of a revamp to this website, but that has had to be put on hold for a while, too.

To recap on some of the things that have been going on…at the end of 2011 the latest Hamish McHaggis book (number 10 in the series) HAMISH McHAGGIS AND THE GREAT GLASGOW TREASURE HUNT was completed and it will be officially launched at the end of April – 28th at Kelvingrove Glasgow, and on the  29th at The Riverside transport Museum in Glasgow.  More details on the author visits and events page or see the Glasgow Life website Kelvingrove Museum book launch

More details about this and other book launches on my visit page and coming soon here, too.

I have been visiting a lot of schools and you can find out where I’m going to be by looking at my author visit and events page and by scrolling down to the foot of that page to see  Previous Events you can also see all the places I’ve been

A couple of highlights which I shall be blogging about  in the next few days on my blog BOOKWORDS are

My visit to MES the Modern English School in CAIRO, a couple of weeks ago

The wonderful animation of Hamish McHaggis stories written by P3 children from Gylemuir Primary which was inspired by their visit to see me at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last year,

and some of the great school visits I’ve had in the last few months.

While sorting out some of the lovely event pictures I am going  to add to my gallery,  I came across this one of  children from Bathgate Primary school in West Lothian. I met them in their wonderful new library in October 2011