Dominic Barker Tour September 2010

• Watch some of the tour footage
• Feedback and Pictures
• Biography
• Blogs from the tour

Scottish Book Trust and Scottish Friendly are delighted to have brought the hilarious author Dominic Barker to the Western Isles this September.

Throughout the tour, Dominic brought his wonderful menagerie of books featuring mad professors, teenage private eyes, singing warriors and talking monkeys to pupils on the Western Isles. Dominic entertained and sparked the imagination of the pupils during the week long tour as well as reading a number of extracts from his latest novel Adam and the Arkonauts.

Photographs from The Scottish Friendly Children's Book Tour

Teacher feedback:

‘An excellent, lively, interactive event.’  Mrs Ferguson, Balivanich Primary School

‘Very lively and entertaining, pupils were engaged and interested throughout. One of the better author visits that I have experienced!’ Caroline, The Nicolson Institute 

‘I thought that the way the author interacted with the children to produce a story was wonderful.’  Rhoda, Shelibost School

Pupil feedback:

'I want to become an author now!' Jason, age 8, Tong School

'I thought meeting an author was fantastic.' Donna, age 8, Tong School

'Dominic Barker came to visit us. We got to make up a story with him. It was good fun.' Martin, age 7, Scalpay School

'We went to the Dominic Barker event. We all made up a story together. Everybody gave their ideas about characters and places and things that could happen. Dominic made it all into a great story' Sven, age 9, Scalpay School

Go to our blog page to find out more about Dominic's tour of the Western Isles and read Mike's blog.

You can also read Dominic's version of events too. It seems like they all had an excellent tour!

Dominic Barker on tour:

An excerpt from Adam and the Arkonauts read in the fresh Scottish air...

A fantastically atmospheric reading from Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save The World.

The Adam and the Arkonauts author encounters some wind, a sheep and the very cold sea...

Biography:

Dominic Barker was born in 1966 in Southport only months after England won the World Cup. He studied English at Birmingham University and subsequently was a stand-up comic with the likes of Frank Skinner and Alan Davies, then a secondary school teacher, before writing his first series for young readers and the geniously funny Blart books. Dominic lives in Spain. 

For more information about Dominic Barker, please visit his wonderful website.