School Author Visits & Bookings
Company Director, Trevor Wilson, has been coordinating school author visits, Festivals, theatre shows and overseas tours over the past five years for some of the most highly respected children’s authors, poets and illustrators in the UK.
From Bangkok to Brazil, Singapore to Dubai, Egypt to Abu Dhabi, Spain to Kuwait, Authors Abroad have worked in more than 100 International Schools all over the World inspiring children from over 100 nationalities about reading and writing.
There is nothing as powerful as the gift of reading. It is the mission of Authors Abroad to provide that all-important spark that ignites a lifelong love of reading, writing and creativity.
What do we do?
• We plan all school author visits working closely with each school.
• We usually send an author to a country for a two week period working with 10 schools – normally one per day.
• We tailor each visit to meet individual schools' needs.
• We take care of all flights, accommodation and shipping of books.
• We take the strain out of planning an author/poet visit.
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What can we offer?
• Professional people who are highly regarded and experienced
• Presentations/workshops to suit all age groups
• Inspiring interactive presentations for large groups
• Stimulating workshops for smaller groups
• In-service training for staff/parents
• Extended residency work
• Personalised book signing
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Key Booking Features
• All the people we work with can offer half day or full day school author visits and occasionally weeklong residencies in a school.
• All age groups are catered for from infants to upper secondary.
• Group sizes are not a problem – all of our team are experienced, and enjoy, working with large groups from 100 to 500.
• Costs vary from author to author – please contact us to discuss fees.
• Most special requirements can be met if we are informed well in advance.
• We normally provide letters to go out to parents and lots of background information on each presenter prior to a visit.
• All authors/poets bring books with them on the day and are happy to personalise copies for the children.
• We are happy to provide contact details of previous schools visited – word of mouth is our best form of recommendation!
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Book Samples
If you would like to purchase copies of the books written by any of our authors, please contact us and we will arrange for shipment of books within a few days. Many of our authors have recently published new books, which are available in the BOOKS SECTION.
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