World Book Day 2026

 Tomorrow is World Book Day and I'm going to be spending it at Well Lane Primary School in Tranmere. I'm really looking forward to meeting everyone. It's going to be a fun day of stories, rhymes, and lots of book talk, questions and answers.

New Books and Out on the Road

Over the past twelve months I've been busy with writing, and Vicky and I have been busy looking after Marvin - our miniature dachshund. Marvin is two years old now - here's a picture of him on his birthday. A very handsome young man.

I'm always busy writing but over the last few months I've been working on some little graphic reader books. Six about pirates and six more some about young inventors. The pirate books - all about a young pirate and his shipwrecked crew will be published in a few months - the first two coming out in April. 

With excellent illustrations by Denis Christo, I think they look great. I found writing a graphic book to be quite a bit different to writing a normal story as I had to really imagine how each page was going to look. 

World Book Day is coming up and I will be out and about visiting schools and libraries. I can still fit a couple more visits in, so if you would like a visit to your school, send me and email to damianjharvey@sky.com 

Book Week

 Next week is book week, with World Book Day on Thursday. It's going to be a busy week...

Here's a huge HELLO to everyone at Barnston Primary, Tockholes Primary, Prenton Primary, Thelwall Junior School - and to everyone that will be coming along to see me at Rhyl Library. I'm really looking forward to meeting everyone to share stories and answer questions.

See you all soon.

Library Visit

 Today I'm busy writing, but tomorrow I'll be visiting St Asaph Library in Denbighshire... I'm very much looking forward to meeting Yr 4 and 5 from Ysgol Edward Morgan, and Yr 2 from St Asaph V P Infants. 

When I see you I'll answer all your questions, show you how a book is made, and tell you about some of books that I've written. I'm especially looking forward to telling you about my new Dinosaur Heroes books.  

See you all soon...   

Hello Dubai

Here's a huge HELLO to all of my new friends at the International School of Creative Science in Dubai. I hope that you are all having fun working on your giant story about Ali and Omar. It already sounds like it is going to be a lot of fun.

I thought that you might like see what it is like here in Wales where we live so here are some photographs.

We live quite near the sea an spend a lot of time here with our little dog, Marvin.

Marvin loves running on the sand and on the stones. He likes to splash around in the water too.

We also live close to the hills and mountains. There are lots of hills in Wales. 

There are also lots of castles. Almost every town has a castle. Some of them are in ruins like Ewloe Castle which is five minutes away from our house.

But there are lots and lots of other castles that aren't in ruins - like these...

We love visiting castles and looking around inside them. Some of the castles are huge.

This bridge is called the Menai Bridge. We rive across this whenever we go across to the island of Anglesey. 

These Puffins live in burrows (holes in the ground) high up on the cliffs above the sea. They are beautiful.  

When we aren't walking on the beaches or visiting castles, we can often be found going up into the hills and mountains near where we live. 

This tree is known as the lonely tree. It stands in the water by the edge of a lake in the mountains. 

It looks nice and sunny in Dubai - it's cold and wet here right now. And we had snow a little while ago. 

And here's just a few more pictures of places near where we live that we have taken in the last couple of weeks. See you all soon...

Victoria Road Primary A.I.M. High Writing Day

 Tomorrow I'll be spending the day at Victoria Road Primary School in Runcorn, leading a Writing Workshop with eager year 5 and 6 writers from Victoria Road, St Clement's Catholic Primary, Beechwood Primary, St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery, Halebank Church of England Primary, Moorfield Primary, and St Edward's Primary School. 

I'm looking forward meeting everyone in the morning... It's going to be a fun and creative day. Huge thanks to the Authors Abroad team for arranging the day.

Dinosaur Heroes

 Over the past few months I've been busy writing about dinosaurs. Today I've just received copies of two of the Dinosaur Heroes books - Terrifying T. rex, and Pterosaur Troubles. The books have been wonderfully illustrated by Alex Patterson, and they look Grrreat!!!

Dinosaur Heroes feature the same young heroes that were in my Global Heroes books - Fernanda, Keira, Ling, Mo, and Ronan. But now their missions see them travelling around the world, and back in time, as they come face to face with dinosaurs, prehistoric flying reptiles, and marine reptiles. In the books I've tried to make the creatures as realistic as I could so I've been doing quite a bit of research along the way.

Each of the Dinosaur Heroes books is a standalone adventure so you can read them in any order. These two books are published on the 26th September, and the next two are out in December.

Now it's time to start work on something new...