These slithering snippets are all about snails that live on land - land snails with the occasional mention of their relations.
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Snail Trail

 


For Schools

As a local author I am looking to arrange several school visits in the area to talk about subject matters relevant to Key Stages 1 and 2 in the book, in particular:

Literacy

  • How to Plan a story
  • Beginnings and Endings
  • The Use of Illustrations
  • Factual Writing: Leaflets
  • Planning a Front Cover
  • Book Promotion

Science

  • (Living Things) - Life Cycles
  • (Living Things) - Moving and Growing
  • (Physical Processes) - Gravity

As you will see, Debbie Thrower has provided a wonderful quote for the book, as a result of which the story behind Snail Trail has been filmed by ITV Thames Valley News.

I am happy to bring in my tank of African Land Snails to show the children if you would feel it was appropriate and am happy to discuss any aspect of self-publishing with the children that you feel would be of interest to them.

To back up the science aspect of Snail Trail there is some information on this website under the heading Sixty-Six Slithering Snippets which offers a description of what makes up an African Land Snail, how it moves, eats, and reproduces and there are some simple experiments that can be undertaken to illustrate the force of suction.

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