School Author Visits & Bookings in the UK and abroad

Over the past five years, Company Director, Trevor Wilson, has been coordinating school author visits, Festivals, and theatre shows in the UK and abroad with some of the UK’s most highly respected children’s authors, poets and illustrators.

Our Mission
What We Do
What We Offer
Key Booking Features
What Schools Are Saying About Us
Book Samples

Our mission

From Bradford to Bangkok, Southampton to Dubai, Belfast to Brazil and everywhere else in between, Authors Abroad coordinates more than 1,000 UK school visits and more than 100 international schools visits around the world, inspiring children from over 50 nationalities about reading and writing.

There is nothing as powerful as the gift of reading, and it is the mission of Authors Abroad to provide that all-important spark that ignites a lifelong love of reading, writing and creativity.

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What We Do

• We plan all school author visits working closely with each school.
• We usually send an author to an area (or a country or region) for a one to two week period working with 5-10 schools – normally one per day.
• We tailor each visit to meet individual school needs.
• We take care of all flights, accommodation and shipping of books (when necessary).
• We simply take the strain out of planning an author/poet visit.

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What 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 ages 1-101!
• Group sizes are not a problem – all of our team are highly experienced and enjoy working with groups of 100 to 500 people.
• Affordable fees. These vary from author to author – please contact us to discuss.
• Most special requirements can be met if we are informed well in advance.
• We provide publicity material for each author to help you spread the word prior to a visit.
• Free book signing. All visitors bring books with them on the day of their visit 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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What Schools Are Saying About Us

Our author's visit was a huge success and all of the children had a lovely day. Thank you again for organising a wonderful day.
- Milly Cogan, Literacy Coordinator, St Peter & St Paul C of E Primary School, Leicester, UK

“Just a quick message to let you know how much our school enjoyed our illustrator's visit on Friday! Thank you for all your help in getting stuff arranged and hope to hear from you again sometime in the future!”
- Penny Leigh, Learning Resource Centre Officer, Fir Vale School, Sheffield

“Your team do a fantastic job to ensure that poetry (and Literacy in general) can be a lot of fun! It has been a pleasure. Your company is very efficient and easy to work with...which makes our job much easier! Many thanks from all of us.”
- Eimear Davis, Deputy Head Teacher, St. Mary's Catholic Primary School, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK

“Our day was excellent. The children particularly enjoyed the whole school performance and it was great to see all children (and staff!) participating with enthusiasm. The poetry workshop sessions allowed every single child to achieve and they all produced a poem to be proud of, many of which are now copied out and displayed in classrooms. A super day! Thank you!”
- Nicky Aston, Headteacher, Eastern Green Junior School, Coventry, UK

“Thank you so much for arranging a visit to us today. The author was absolutely fantastic- both staff and children had a wonderful time. I would be happy to recommend her to other schools, as everyone involved in the day was very impressed. All the juniors were talking of nothing else and the year four's, who took part in the workshop, were especially proud of the poems which she helped them to write. Thank you so much for a great day!”
- Stephanie Chatfield, Literacy Coordinator, St. Thomas More Catholic School, Chatham, Kent, UK

“A huge thank you for yesterday's workshop - the author went down a storm! The pupils wouldn't let him leave as they all wanted his autograph! Many thanks again - I'm sure we'll be contacting you again in the future!”
- Charlotte Cantwell, Literacy Coordinator, Tranmere Park Primary School, Leeds

"The talk around the school, in this day of budget cuts and limited money for enrichment activities, has not been 'that was good' but 'we must get him back, that was amazing.' I can honestly say through the rhythm, dynamics, enthusiasm and poetry of Donavan, every child who met him was touched and responded- a big deal in our school.

Thank you."

– Kylie Cederblad, The Foreland School (a school for profound, severe or complex learning difficulties), Broadstairs, Kent, UK