Peter J. Murray's Blog, page 23
February 4, 2013
PEARLS AND GEMS
Our last two schools in Abu Dhabi rounded off our tour in style. The Pearl Primary (our third Aldar School) and the GAA (Gems American Academy) proved very different, but equally welcoming schools. The Pearl are old friends of ours and Marie Ann Cook provided an audience of more-than-enthusiastic students…from Year 3 (Grade 2) through [...]
January 29, 2013
ABU DHABI II – THE SEQUEL!
A bad start to the holiday weekend. A crown fell out of one of my teeth leaving a gaping hole! And then the scariest of episodes…a visit to an Abu Dhabi dentist! My worst nightmare! One day I will write a sequel to the Bonebreaker – THE TOOTHBREAKER! In fact, the dentist at the Al [...]
January 24, 2013
UK ICE TO ABU DHABI GOLD!
We only got out of Heathrow by the skin of our teeth! Twenty four hours earlier we couldn’t even get from our nearby Berkshire base to the airport. However, our re-booked flight took to the skies just before the next dumping of snow arrived…phew! We touched down after a perfect flight with Etihad Airlines and were soon checked [...]
January 18, 2013
MORE CHESTERFIELD GEMS!
We always seem to have such a good time when we visit schools in the ‘Town of the Crooked Spire’…Chesterfield! Our good friend, Russell Bevan, of Parkside Community School, recommended our books to his feeder primary schools and hence wefound ourselves visiting two ‘new’ Chesterfield schools…Brampton Primary and The Spire Junior School. Both these schools [...]
January 8, 2013
LOOKING GREAT FOR 2013
A very ‘Happy New Year’ to all our fans. Really hope you’ve had a great Christmas and a good start to the new year. Kath and I are looking forward to a wonderful year ahead of us. Simon, our son and illustrator, has launched our brand new publishing company, Atlantis Children’s Books. Great things have already started [...]
