After rounding everyone up and setting up I began by drawing a cow on the whiteboard. It took a few guesses to figure out which animal I was drawing  but they figured it out. I explained the reason I had written a story about a fly was because there were a lot on my farm because of all the cow dung.

I went on the read the story and I could feel their excitement build, they loved telling me where the fly was on every page.

Once the book was finished I got a brave little volunteer to come up the front so I could draw a picture of them. This was quite a hit and I could feel the children creeping closer and closer as I drew. I ended up with them practically on my lap. Once I had drawn a few kids we then created a story together and I drew the pictures as we went. We had one of the pupils as the main character and his mum over for dinner. They had a hard time coming up with 3 vegetables to go on his plate, with lots of fruit being mistaken for vegetables but we got there in the end.

I had a great time sharing my story with Busy Beez Childcare Centre and hope I inspired them to create lots of stories and pictures of their own.