Author Visit Preparations

Tom is really looking forward to working with you!

On this page there are lots of extra materials to help prepare and promote the author visit with Tom to your colleagues and pupils and we hope some of them will be of use to you.

Essentials …

Meet the Author Today – a special poster to print out or use this image for your intranet / socials tompalmer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Angel-of-Grasmere-Meet-the-author-today.pdf
Tom’s author visit guidelines tompalmer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Author-Visit-Guidelines-Feb-2024.docx
Tom’s booksales pack and a suggested letter to go home tompalmer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Book-sales-pack-Oct-2024.docx

How to arrange a successful author visit from teachers S Davids and CStone of Haworth Primary School tompalmer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/How-to-arrange-a-successful-author-visit-amended-by-CS.doc

Preparing for the visit

We will send you a poster pack and confirmation of booking form.
Plan Tom’s visit and return the booking form with all your requirements for us to check.
Decide how you’d like to offer books for sale – using your local bookshop or with Rosemary Hill’s book box.
Optional – send us any NEW SUPPLIER FORMS or PURCHASE ORDER NUMBERS that your school may need us to use.

And here are some preparation ideas that can be used in the classroom or at home in the month before …

READ a free story from Tom’s website tompalmer.co.uk/free-reads/
QUIZ an extract from one of Tom’s books tompalmer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SQ-FA-FP-Reading-Comprehension.pdf
LEARN more about Tom in an interview with Tom tompalmer.co.uk/biography/
COLOUR the great RAF planes featured in Tom’s children’s series Wings – the Sopwith Camel, Spitfire and Typhoon. More colouring pages here … tompalmer.co.uk/colouring-pages/
CREATE a display of Tom’s books in your library. There are lots of ideas on his pinterest page pinterest.co.uk/admintompalmer/school-displays/
REVIEW a story from the Rugby Academy series on a rugby ball template (see Page 15 of Tom’s Rugby & Literacy Pack tompalmer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ScrumRugbyAndLiteracy-may-2015.pdf ) or review a Football Academy book using the football shaped template (see Page 11 of Tom’s Football Detective pack here tompalmer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/FOUL-PLAY-pack-Sept-2012.pdf )
INTERVIEW each other about what they like to read and create posters using the Football Readers pack tompalmer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/Football%20Readers.pdf
WATCH a video from Tom’s unmonetized Youtube site full of interviews with pupils, introductions to his books and writing tips youtube.com/@TomPalmerAuthor

Last minute ideas

Souvenir Booklet for pupils (print booklet or print on 2 sheets of A4 and fold in half to 8 pages or print in page order 8,1,2,7,6,3,4,5, print on both sides (flip pages on short edge) and 2 pages to a sheet. It includes an acrostic puzzle to do, an interview with Tom about reading & writing, space for them to write down the question they want to ask Tom and a place to collect his signature – if you’d like to let us know how many signatures to send you on stickers. You can download it here tompalmer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Tom-Palmer-2-sheet-visit-booklet-2025.pdf
USE this powerpoint: tompalmer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Tom-Palmer-introductory-powerpoint-May-2024.pptx

Find more of Tom’s literacy resources here or visit the webpage for a book title if you are looking for something specific.

Follow up ideas

We will send on the invoice for the agreed fee and travel expenses.

Please get in touch if you’d like …

FREE certificates for reading all of a series – 7 history books, all 6 Roy of the Rovers, 3 Defenders, 3 Wings books, 3 Rugby Academy books, 6 Football Academy series or all 5 Foul Play books – please ask us for free certificates signed by Tom for you to present to your pupils.
If they didn’t get the chance to buy a signed and dedicated book from Tom, we are happy to sort out any last minute book sales. Or if they have bought any of Tom’s books subsequently from Amazon or a local bookseller, we can send them signed book plates to add to their books.