My Big Walk to Little Schools

Completed: Land’s End to Mawgan Porth 71 miles

Next up: 16-22 May Mawgan Porth to Bude

In March 2025 I began an adventure – walking from Cornwall to Scotland to share my stories about nature and the environment in schools and libraries along the way – over time. I am absolutely thrilled to be supported by Arts Council National Lottery Grant Funding for Phase 1 Cornwall to Hay-on-Wye by June 2026, which means I can offer FREE author events along the way. Steve Williams, co-author of The Story of series joined me for the first week of this leg – celebrating 10 years of our book series.

I hope this adventure sparks curiosity, conversations, classroom activities, reading and action to care for our plane. I love the collaborative journey of working with scientists, communities, illustrators and publishers to create the books that have inspired this project. This Big Walk means I will spend more time this year outside experiencing nature rather than inside in front of a computer screen.

I am looking forward to learning, celebrating and sharing these experiences. I know I will discover new things, new places and meet new people. I am also pretty sure I will get lost and and get wet and I embrace all of that too.

With the support of my publishers offering gift books, I have launched a nature writing competition My Little Walk in Nature to primary aged children in participating schools*.

I also providing schools with a template encouraging children to decorate bunting with illustrations of Nature I Love to celebrate local nature with school-picked winners up for prize books kindly donated by my publishers.

Please keep in touch - I welcome your feedback and ideas.

• Please note that I am working with library services to invite local schools to library-based author events. I am booked for Cornwall and currently planning Devon, North Somerset…

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Contact me email bigwalk@catherinebarrbooks.me