Virtual author event – Nicola Davies, author of The Map of Me
Join author Nicola Davies for a special event she has created around her book linked to her Children’s Laureate for Wales project “Maps of Today Maps of Tomorrow”, that invites children to engage with their home patch through the making of creative, personal maps of how things are now and how they could be in the future.
The Map of Me is a gentle story about moving, making connections and mapping a better world.
When a young girl moves to a new country, her mum helps her draw a map to understand her unfamiliar surroundings. They draw the new neighbourhood, new friends and the special places the girl has found but important things from the past are missing like Grandma and Joe-Dog. So the girl makes the map bigger to include them.
Soon the girl’s friends are inspired to add their own stories and the distances between them all seem to shrink. Yet when misfortune strikes and the girl’s world is shown to be less fixed than she thought, how will she learn to navigate change?
Discover how we all have the power to create a better future.
Key details
Date: Tuesday 5th May 2026
Time: 2 – 2:45pm
Location: Online
Audience: Bookmark partner schools – suitable for Upper KS1 and KS2 or 6 – 11-year-olds
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