The week of our literature festival was full of fun activities and visiting authors. Year 5’s visiting author was Mark Wilson. Mark Wilson is a dedicated author who writes and illustrates detailed picture books. He uses oil pastel to make his artwork.
My favourite part of the literature festival was definitely the visiting author. Mark Wilson was great and explained a lot about his books to us. We did a drawing workshop with him and we were inspired a lot by what he said and showed us. He told us that when he was young, he had to fight in The Vietnam War. People weren’t happy that the war was happening, so they threw paint at the buses carrying soldiers.
I learned lots of interesting facts from Mark Wilson’s workshop but this is definitely the most interesting.He told us that for a picture book, you are only meant to have 400 to 500 words in the whole book. Mark said that he has about 1,000 more words than that. He told us that if he used letters, (Which count as illustrations) to include those words.
The literature festival was amazing and I will definitely enjoy it again.
What was your favourite part of the festival and why?
When I read, recently I have been enjoying historical fiction books like The War that Saved My Life, and War Horse. I like historical fiction books because they use interesting situations in history, like the Cold War, the First World War, and the Victorian Era. Historical fiction books include the interest of a novel, and include interesting periods. That makes for an extremely engrossing book.