You will see us in NSW and QLD in the next three weeks as we stock up the stores with books for winter reading.
Bogan Gate Public School again signed me up for a two day session and boy do l have a program for them!
We will be exploring a few as yet unpublished books as well as the latest stories just launched a month ago. I always read the new stories to students for their comments and advice before going to print - it is an insightful and often enlightening process.
This time around l have prepared a mural for them to work on - Helen will be amazed at my audacity - we are looking at the bush in a new way following animal tracks, picking up feathers and checking out nests. Principal Rosemary Earl has her students studying the egg to chicken process so l took it a yard or so further with Emily Emu Chick and how to find animals and birds in the bush by looking at tracks and traces.
And if you're wondering about the mural - well The Bunyip in Fiery Creek is due out in September so we're looking at aboriginal legends and then taking that to a major art work.
Narromine Public School will be my next stop and the special needs students will be working on a special project about everything Narromine - think Glen McGrath, think gliding, think citrus fruit and flowers - oh and Melissa Gainsford-Taylor as well.
St Josephs Primary in Maitland will have a story telling session on behalf of McDonalds books run by the gentlemanly John who looks after all the schools in his area.
We are also touching our toe into Queensland and signing books at The Book Tree in Toowoomba at 12 noon through to 1pm on Tuesday June 16th, where Anne has set up a very special and rather exclusive book shop.
While we travel up the centre of NSW then down the coast we will be stocking up our stores with new books and adding some new outlets to our list. If we have missed you just give us a call on 0466 284 096.
Helen is hard at it working on Wilberforce the Wombat - a new first reader about a bumbling short sighted wombat to be released with The Bunyip in Fiery Creek - a chapter book for more advanced readers in September. Here are some of her delightful illustrations to wet your appetite.
See you on the road!
