Katherine Rundell

On the 4^th of May the best-selling author Kate Rundell came to our class. She has written 5 books already, which are “The Girl Savage”, “Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms”, “Wolf Wilder”,   “Rooftopers” and “The Explorer”. She has also written a movie clip called “Henry the Hedgehog’’. Her favourite hobby is climbing on rooftops at 4:00 in the morning wearing black [She is not a robber]. She also went to the Amazon where she ate a tarantula and a piranha [which also ate the tour guide's finger!].

She helped us make the start of a story about Barry, a random boy, and April an ordinary witch. In it there is an army of Donald Trumps and killer clowns and it is based in LISMORE CASTLE! I hope it becomes a real story. She told us a lot about her life and that every day she walks on her tight rope in her office in her ballet shoes. She’s taking flying lessons in a small yellow aeroplane. In the Amazon she met a sloth and ate grubs. We think that the class enjoyed her talk and we thought that it was very inspiring.

By Niamh Johnson, Hannah Lehane and Eimear Meany