My forthcoming educational book, Making A Drama Out Of A Crisis: Drama Techniques for Improving Behaviour Management in the Classroom is now available to pre-order via amazon.co.uk here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Drama-Out-Crisis-Techniques/dp/1855394464/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227093279&sr=1-11
The book - published by Network Continuum Education - contains dozens of unique drama games and exercises to help with problems such as use of bad language, [...]

I’m delighted, honoured and slightly speechless today (something of a first…)
Not only has RIF (Reading Is Fundamental, part of the National Literacy Trust) asked me to become RIF Ambassador to North Ormesby Primary School, but the school itself has name a trophy after me for it’s forthcoming prize day: The Tommy Donbavand Writing Hero Award.
If [...]

Yes, this is my 200th post on this blog (I started last November, so that’s not bad work for a year!)
To celebrate, I’m proud to reveal the covers for the forthcoming Scream Street books:
Scream Street 5: Skull of the Skeleton…

and Scream Street 6: Claw of the Werewolf…

They’ll be published on 4th May 2009, and are [...]

I spotted Scream Street for sale at Borders today, and I found myself in good company…
Here I’m on a table with Darren Shan and JK Rowling…

And here I’m next to Julia Donaldson, with both of us being sandwiched between Roald Dahl and Anne Fine.

Made me smile!
Tommy
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As previously mentioned, I’ve been reading and reviewing spooky kids books for the October edition of Junior Education Plus.  The reviews are now online, and can be found here.
The books I reviewed are:
Stone Goblins by David Melling
Fright Night: The Shrieking Stones by Steve Rogers
Nightmare Academy: Charlie’s Monsters by Dean Lorey
The Murrian by Robert Dodds
The Wickit [...]

Grab your towels and stick out your thumb, because Arthur Dent’s going hitchhiking again and, this time, he’s got a new guide…
I was delighted to red that Artemis Fowl creator and all-round top bloke, Eoin Colfer, has been chosen to write a new installment in the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy series - called ‘And [...]

Hurrah and Harooh!  There’s a new Mr Gum book in town - and if that doesn’t get you excited, you must be a flippin’ crazer!
In Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, Andy Stanton continues his skewed look at the odd goings on in Lamonic Bibber.  This time, a bear arrives in town and is befriended [...]

Look what I got in the post this morning…

My face hurts from smiling!
Tommy
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I finished the first draft of my forthcoming educational drama book, Making A Drama Out Of A Crisis, today.  It still needs a fair bit of work, but I think it will be very strong resource by the time it comes out.  Plus, the book now includes a major class project that will be great [...]

I’ve received a couple of emails from people asking why I’ve stopped reviewing the books I read.  The answer is that I haven’t stopped - I’ve just been reviewing them somewhere else…
The magazine, Junior Education Plus asked me to review ten spooky kids books for their October issue, and I’ve been reading little else for [...]