Rachel Rooney Performance

The last week of the 2021 Bookshow programme started with a morning of perfect poetry with Rachel Rooney at the Floral Pavilion theatre in the Wirral. Rachel captivated the audience with her engaging and interactive performance. Rachel told the children how she became a poet, how she finds her inspiration and how she gets unstuck when she's working on a particularly tricky poem by walking her dogs, Woody and Buzz! Rachel performed lots of poems from the whole range of her books, but a highlight was the hilarious My Life as a Goldfish, which involved several children volunteers on stage taking the role of plant pot, TV and bookshelf, as well as a very game teacher who swam around in the part of the ill-fated goldfish!

After a very interesting Q&A session, Rachel finished the hour long show by donning a very special costume and reciting the poem from the extremely erudite and well-educated school hamster (as seen in A Kid in My Class)! Free copies of A Kid in My Class were given to all the children attending. Thanks to everyone who came to make it such a special event!