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Local children’s author, Isabelle King has a variety of exciting storytelling activities for families to access and enjoy from home. Stories to make, listen to and read!
Make A Story from home! Free Storytelling Activities to access and enjoy from home.
Design a dragon, create a spectacular theatre show and adventure through Iron Age Britain. These free courses with National Centre for Writing can be done from home online alone or together with the family. The pieces are educational, entertaining and simple for children and parents to follow. They are fresh and structured ideas on getting creative from home.
Story Prompts – for ages 6-9 and suitable for little ones to draw pictures.
https://courses.nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/p/story-prompts-young-writers
All The World’s A Stage: for children 6-9.
https://courses.nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/p/worlds-a-stage-6-9
Writing Boudica: An Iron Age Adventure for ages 10-12.
https://courses.nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/p/writing-boudica-10-12s
Snuggle Up with Bedtime Stories for EACH
Isabelle has recorded some stories from her books for East Anglian Children’s Hospices. Snuggle up with a cup of something lovely and listen here –
https://www.each.org.uk/family-zone/activities-for-families/childrens-stories-by-isabelle-king
Get reading! Isabelle’s new book, ‘Emelia Moorgrim and the Medieval Monsters of Norfolk’ is coming this spring! Suitable for ages 5-12. Available from all good book shops and online. Visit www.thehistorypress.co.uk
Buy the book
”Monsters have escaped from a medieval book and they’re running riot in Norfolk! Join Emelia Moorgrim and her cat Monty Marmalade as they courageously use their time travel watch to journey through history, untangle mysteries and find the monsters before they cause too much trouble. Inspired by items at Norfolk Heritage Centre and Norfolk landmarks this book adventures through the ages with many monsters in the pages!’’
“A brilliantly inventive, wonderfully fascinating and monstrously funny book, full of super stories, marvellous creatures and gripping historical facts. The perfect read for little monsters!” From best-selling children’s author Alexander Gordon Smith
”Emelia Moorgrim and the Medieval Monsters of Norfolk’ brings the region’s history to life — quite literally — as a cavalcade of fantastical creatures leaps from the pages of an old medieval manuscript to wreak havoc through time.
Emelia’s knockabout adventures are fast paced and told with energy and humour.
A light, zany romp which also manages to make a case for the importance of storytelling and imagination in communicating history to future generations.” From award-winning children’s author Ben Manley.
