"Would love an author to chat to our Year 4 children in Liverpool, England. I'm really trying to foster a love of reading in my class and think that this would be a way of engaging the pupils in the literature we're reading at the moment.

Many thanks,

Kate"

"Yes, I received your email and have written back to you. I will be delighted to visit your school, and since September I have made about four skype visits to children's classrooms, read to the children, talked to them, answered their questions, seen them performing my poems and been given poems that they've written for me too. It has been such fun. I live in the Yorkshire Dales and get so much wildlife in my garden. There is always a poem about it and I have a story to tell the children, and they love this. They love telling me a bit about where they live too, but the best thing is when I'm invited to a school, such as The British School of Costa Rica, where English is a second language for these children. To be able to perform one of my poems in English, and ask me questions in English, etc etc is really putting fun into an ESL classroom. During last year my poems went into 188 countries of the world and I had almost 602,000 pages accessed on my website - so the poems are being read somewhere, obviously, ha ha. I look forward very much to meeting you without doubt and thank you so much."