I
first tried to write a book when I was only
13 or 14 but I didn’t get very far. I
remember it started off with two boys
walking along a beach. One of them bent down
to pick something up but then my mind seemed
to go blank! So it was quite a few years
later when I first started to write ‘The
Sword of Davalon’. I was a qualified teacher
having just gained a degree in teaching. I
think it was in 1984 when I started the
book. I sat down on my bed with a pen and
paper and just started to write. There
weren’t many PC’s about in 1984!
I didn’t have a clue about the
story - I just started writing about these
three children and the story developed.
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Dyslexia: Is the Shoe Perhaps on
the Wrong Foot?
by: Susan du Plessis
Reading is the most
important skill that a child must acquire at
school, because one must learn to read to be
able to read to learn. The implication of
this is that the child who is a poor reader
will usually also be a poor learner.
Unfortunately poor reading
skills, and therefore poor learning skills,
have become a reality for an alarming number
of people. The $14 million National Adult
Literacy Survey of 1993 found that even
though most adults in this survey had
finished high school, 96% of them could not
read, write, and figure well enough to go to
college. Even more to the point, 25% were
plainly unable to read. more
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The Sword
of Davalon’ by Tom Jolleys is the first book
published by The Kids (Keeping Informed of
Dyslexia Services) Press.
The layout of this book has been specially
designed to make it Dyslexia Friendly- kids
with reading problems.
However, this does NOT mean that every
dyslexic child or adult will be able to read
it with ease.
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