His children wrote him some top secret questions for us to ask him such as "when did you go bald?", "who was your first kiss?" and "do you like children?" This had the children in fits of laughter especially as Lucia was chosen from the audience to read the questions to him. The last question was "Can I have a dollar?" and luckily for Lucia he gave her a dollar!!
At the end some children were chosen to ask James a question. Caleb was a big fan and he had brought all three of the dragon books along with him from home and Sarah found out it takes him about three weeks to write the stories as he has to think hard about words that rhyme to use in his books. All the books are available in our school library - although after his visit they may be very popular for a while!
In the front of his books are a map that goes with his stories. James told us that if you download the app called AR Reads which is free from the apple app store, you can use it over the map to create a virtual reality view of the map. You can see the characters come alive and the dragons flying around and even try to catch them in your hand. If you tilt the map, you can create different 3D effects of the land as well. For those of you who don't have the books, I have added a link below where you can print his map out and use it at home. You then just need to download the app on a iPad or phone and then you can have some fun with it.
Click to get Map (you can hover your phone or iPad over the map on the computer and that will also work if you don't have a printer).
Or print from the following link...
http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/
We just downloaded the App and checked out the map in 3D, it's fascinating!!!
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