Posts by Anna McKerrow
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Gulliver’s Travels is The Write Book for Claremont Primary...
Posted 8 May 2013 As part of Booktrust's The Write Book Project, Anna visited Claremont Primary School to see how they were getting on with their creative writing project inspired by Gulliver's Travels. Read 'Gulliver’s Travels is The Write Book...' -
What is The Write Book for your school?
Posted 21 March 2013 The Write Book is a new Booktrust project that aims to support Year 5 and 6 teachers run whole-of-year writing projects inspired by children's books, providing an important link between... Read 'What is The Write Book for...' -
Heads up! It's poetry season
Posted 23 October 2012 Booktrust's Anna McKerrow writes about a range of opportunities for exploring poetry in the classroom, including the T S Eliot Prize Shadowing Scheme Read 'Heads up! It's poetry season ' -
Ladies, I give you Daenerys Targaryen
Posted 4 October 2012 As part of our series on heroes for this year's Children's Book Week, Booktrust's Anna McKerrow tells us about why she loves George R R Martin's complex heroine Read 'Ladies, I give you Daenerys Targaryen' -
Faber New Poets 5-8: Joe Dunthorne, Annie Katchinska, Sam...
Posted 12 July 2010 The confessional poets of the 60s, such as Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell, appeared to be exposing their deepest psyches in their poetry: letting rip with a no-holds-barred (especially in... Read 'Faber New Poets 5-8: Joe Dunthorne,...' -
A new phase for poetry
Posted 7 May 2009 Although it’s been getting lots of press and I may not be saying anything original by mentioning it, I’m really excited and pleased that Carol Ann Duffy is the new... Read 'A new phase for poetry '
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