Last week at Hurlingham Prep School we read Marshall Armstrong to two large groups of children in the gymnasium. The students were a terrific audience, asking some fine questions and eager to get involved in the readings by answering questions I had for them about the book.
I also saw the brand new library which puts any library I ever had at school to shame. It even had cushions to sit on.
There was only one difficult moment during the entire visit, when a student raised his hand and asked the question that has no place in any school visit. But unlike any author before me, I chose to answer honestly and truthfully: “I’m thirty-nine in August”.
Thank you to Elena and Georgia for all their help.
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