Gareth Jones - Author Visit

On Monday 6th March 2023, as part of our World Book Week/Day celebrations, the acclaimed children's author Gareth Jones came to work with classes from Nursery to Year 4.

Gareth P Jones is an award winning children’s author based in South East London. His first book, The Dragon Detective Agency: The Case of the Missing Cats was published January 2007 and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. He then wrote three more books in the series, The Case of the Wayward Professor, The Case of the Vanished Sea Dragon and The Case of the Stolen Film.

His first stand-alone book, The Thornthwaite Inheritance, was published in July 2009 and went on to win numerous local book prizes. This was followed by Space Crime Conspiracy and  The Considine Curse,  which won the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2012.

Our children were inspired to interact with his characters and were able to understand the rigours involved with being a children's author. Thank you to Miss Spilsted for organising.