Event Details

We welcome Simon Chapman - secondary school teacher, children's author, and jungle explorer - to present a guest lecture on converting research and lived experiences into books suitable for children.

He'll take us through the stages of getting your work published, the good, the bad, and the ugly of the publication and print process, as well as share his best practices for turning science into something accessible for young audiences.

This event is free and open to all staff and students with an interest in science publishing. Please book to secure your space.

About the speaker:

Bitten by a crocodile, charged by giant otters and chased up a tree by peccary wild boars in the Bolivian rainforest, Simon Chapman is a self-confessed jungle addict who takes a folding canoe down unexplored Amazonian rivers whenever he can. His adventures and the BBC Wildlife award-winning illustrated diaries that he produces provide the inspiration for over twenty five children’s books and two adult travelogues he has had published.

When not exploring, Simon teached in a Science Faculty in a high school in Lancashire, and his pupils’ questions often lead onto book ideas. His ten Explorers Wanted books for Egmont (which he also illustrated) show young readers how to explore wildernesses all over the world. One of these, At the North Pole, was Blue Peter ‘Best book with facts’ in 2005.