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Welcome to my website! I’m a writer of children’s stories. Mostly in my head, but some are finally being typed!
About me!
I tell fibs for a living. Okay, that was a fib, I’m a children’s story writer but isn’t that the same thing? I make things up! It’s great fun 😊 I was brought up in the beautiful North Yorkshire moors and daydreamed my way through my school years. Being the adventurous type, I made the dramatic… Continue reading About me!
A plea from Santa
Dear Parents and Carers, Thank you for your support over the years. I am always made to feel welcome in your homes – glasses of milk or something stronger, cookies or slices of Christmas cake, oats for my reindeer… However, there’s something I’ve been uncomfortable with that has built up over the years. Despite only… Continue reading A plea from Santa
Why I Wrote About a Puppy Farm in my Children’s Book.
Dogs are amazing: cuddly companions, snuggling up to us on a night, greeting us with enthusiasm every time we enter the home – even if we were only two minutes while we put the bins out. Furry friends, not judging our awful decisions or fashion sense and forgiving us for our mistakes. Peaceful pals who… Continue reading Why I Wrote About a Puppy Farm in my Children’s Book.
ORACY
Has Your School Recognised the Importance Yet? You might be forgiven for thinking oracy is the “new” buzzword, but it has been around since the 1960s. However, it is currently enjoying a well-deserved, renewed focus. Why is it so important? Because as the educationalist, James Britton, said in 1976: “Reading and writing float on a… Continue reading ORACY
Why Your School Should Have an Intervention Menu
When you visit a restaurant with your friends or family, the waiter doesn’t force you all to eat the same meal. Instead, you choose something appropriate for your individual wants and needs. Aunty Ann has a small appetite so selects a meal from the children’s menu, Cousin Yassa is vegetarian and selects a cheesy pasta.… Continue reading Why Your School Should Have an Intervention Menu
The Grandparent Effect on Reading
Grandparents are magic. Fact. Whereas your children might be fighting with each other at your house, they go their grandparents and act like little angels. Whilst they might argue at the dinner table with you, eating at the grandparents is a relaxed affair. Even though they will refuse or cry about having to read to… Continue reading The Grandparent Effect on Reading
Contact
I don’t use snail mail as the dog is environmentally friendly and protests the waste of paper by digesting most of the post, but feel free to contact me through this website or by any of the methods below: Email: rachelcoverdale.author@hotmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rachellouisecoverdale/ Twitter: @RLCoverdale Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachellouisecoverdale/ LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/RachelCoverdaleAuthor Subscribe to my mailing list
Some quotes from my “Reading for Pleasure” workshop presented to Primary and Secondary School teachers.
“Rachel was incredibly knowledgeable and informative. Extremely friendly and my most favourite session.”
“Valuable advice and information. I particularly enjoyed the participation element.”
“Reading for Pleasure was well presented, with enthusiasm.”
NASUWT Teaching and Learning Conference, Middlesbrough
On the 13th December 2019, former pupil to Ingleby Greenhow CofE Primary School Rachel Coverdale who is a published children’s author returned to the school. Rachel started at Ingleby in 1972 and left in 1980. She came to talk to the pupils about her job as an author, share her books with the children and to share her experiences of her time at the school as she remembers them. The children were really inspired by her visit which further promoted a love of reading in the school. Rachel’s books include for younger children ‘Who Hides Here? Footprints in the Garden’ and ‘Who Hides Here? Footprints on the Farm’ and for older children ‘The Boy who Couldn’t’. Children had the opportunity to ask Rachel questions and to buy signed copies of her books. I highly recommend that Rachel visits your school.
Mrs M Norris, Head Teacher, Ingleby Greenhow CofE Primary School
Rachel Coverdale 