Friday, 29 May 2020

Sharing Stories - Wee Nasties


While I was turning my lockdown living room into a makeshift Jackanory studio, I recorded a version of my poem Wee Nasties as a test run for how to put the stories together.

It's been almost fifteen years since I wrote this, seven since we published it as a book, and I still enjoy reading it in schools and libraries.

And there's certainly a direct line between this and the work Mhairi and I did for the Sharing Stories project - not least the guest appearances by the Mermaid and the Frog...