He showed us many of his interesting factual books and some students recognised them, either from home or school; 'Wow! Exclaimed one student, 'I have that book at home, and you wrote it - that is cool.'

They loved the information John gave them about sharks and spiders. 'Oh, that made me shudder,' said Liam from Barle class when we were shown a magnified picture of a shark.

The students were also very interested in the books that he had written about mythical creatures and were very intrigued about where the ideas for a Kraken came from.