As I said back near the start of the lockdown, I'm perfectly happy for teachers to use my books for online lessons with their students. If that involves teachers or librarians recording themselves reading a book of mine aloud and posting it online, that's absolutely fine. The staff of Court Fields School have been doing this since very early days, and are already up to chapter 14 of Cirque Du Freak -- you can check out their efforts here if interested: https://www.facebook.com/watch/CourtFieldsSchool/

Oh wow! I just popped onto their web site, to grab an image to use in the link above. While I was there, I noticed that the school is split into four Houses, which are called... Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire and Topaz!!! If you don't know why that news excited me, then you clearly haven't read my Archibald Lox books yet!! You can find out more about them by clicking on the following link, and if you go read them after that, you'll see why I'm wondering if there might be more to the staff and students of Court Fields School than at first meets the Born eye... https://www.darrenshan.com/news/article/introducing-archie