Alan Pickard

Alan Pickard has been writing for more than 30 years and has worked in industry where developing training courses led into part-time and full-time lecturing, up to degree level at university.

He is now semi-retired, attends a local primary school every week, listening to children reading and has several books on Amazon, including children’s stories. Alan is passionate about reading and writing and very concerned about how poor reading skills are detrimental to young people’s job and career prospects.