Scottish award-winning author Mike Nicholson visited Drumlemble Primary School for World Book Day. He began by reading his picture book, The Giant Who Snored, to the P1-3 children and they learned a song called ‘Ways to Wake a Giant’ which contained lots of rhyming words, He measured how loudly different characters could snore using his Snorometer, with the little midgie  giving the quietest snore and the Giant giving the loudest snore. He started his session with the older children by saying he had the original manuscripts for some famous books. When he showed the children, all he had were blank sheets of paper. He said that every story starts as a blank piece of paper and that imagination could take them anywhere. Mike wrote a series of books called the Museum Mystery Squad and explained that the titles were alliterative. The children were given a shot at making their own alliterative titles like ‘The Terrifying Train’. He is publishing a new book in this series very shortly. Mike gave the pupils some inside information such as what inspired him to write his first novel ‘Catscape’. He had spotted lots of missing cat posters in his hometown of Edinburgh and this got him thinking about what might have happened to them. This gave him the idea for his book which took him an astounding 4 years to complete. The children have been listening to this book in class and are desperate to find out if the mystery of the missing cats is solved. Everyone was thrilled to have a visit from a ‘real live author’ and they are now keen to get writing!