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November 2003 - Vanessa Johnston HEA Reporting...
8 October at 10.30 Mosman Library was cram packed with “Die Hard” Lauren Child Fans!
Lauren started the day off with a talk and slide show presentation about some of the books she has written since 1991.
The first book she wrote and illustrated Clarice Bean That’s me.
Lauren explained that she has always liked Children’s books etc, and wanted to do a cartoon but friends suggested she try writing children’s books and that is what she has done – with great success.
Lauren also went into detail about her illustrating style which is Collage, she finds fabrics, papers etc for backgrounds for her pages, uses photographs of images, draws her characters and other bits and pieces for each page and layers all this onto the back ground piece by piece and there you have it a completed picture, with the text carefully placed to give added impact to the story created.
Also she explained how she got some of the idea’s for her stories, it was very entertaining.
Lauren mainly spoke about Clarice Bean (pronounced Clariss in her wonderful English accent), Lola and Charlie and a small amount about That Pesky Rat. I would have loved to hear about “Herb” from such stories as Beware of the Story Book Wolves and who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, he is one of my favourites too.
Look out for a further Clarice Novel as she is working on that at the moment.
Check out the Clarice Bean website www.claricebean.com
Laurens Latest book I am Absolutely Too Small For School, was released in September 2003 and is available from HEA for $25.16
Photo's from the day available shortly (if they turn out)..
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Term 1 Holidays we were lucky enough to see a production of Morris Gleitzman’s book Worry Warts performed at the IPAC (Illawarra Performing Arts Centre) by a production company – Monkey Baa Productions. And this term (3) was another stellar performance. Term 3’s holiday entertainment at the IPAC was an event for the Merrigong Theatre Co. in conjunction with the Spare Parts Puppet Theatre of
Tim Winton’s book The Deep.
Scene
from the play
The story is about a
young girl called Alice who has a fear of the ocean that she conquers through a
swim with a friendly dolphin. Sharing her adventure is her mum and dad,
brothers, also a cast of puppet sea creatures of which are a beautiful fish, an
octopus, a funny crab, and Alice's pet pooch Ruffy the Dog.
The performance was captivating, the use of puppetry
and minimal props encouraged imagination, the story was great and I am sure
everyone young or old can identify with the main character as we all have our
own fears. I thoroughly enjoyed it as I have said before it is great
seeing a book come to life, live theatre is a great way for this to happen more
so than movies because some of the imagination is still left up to the viewer.
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New Series books:
| New from the Saddle Club: Pine
Hollow - a follow on series to the Saddle Club, first title to be released
in November |
| Lion Boy - Zizou Coder: said to be the
next Harry Potter - the series of books feature Charlie Ashanti, who was scratched by a leopard as a baby and, as a result can talk "cat". |
| Garth Nix has a new series - Keys to the Kingdom and the first book Mister Monday is now released. |
Teachers Info:
| Teachers notes for Walking with the Seasons in Kakadu by Diane Lucas are available click here |
| New
Release Extracts , Teachers
Notes and Online
Book Reviews for books published by Allen and Unwin can be found by clicking the links on the words above. |
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October 2003 - Vanessa Johnston HEA
| The Illawarra has a brand new Author.....Kerrie O'Connor is a Journalist who lives in Coledale NSW and she has just released her first novel "Through the Tiger's Eye" for Children 10+ , Available through HEA for $14.36 - Congratulations Kerrie. To preview chapters 6 and 7 go to: http://www.allen-unwin.com.au/extracts/tigerseye.asp# Kerrie is also available for visits to schools to talk to years 4-6, brought to you by Holding Educational Aids, if you would like further information on having Kerrie visit your school please email me or phone me on (0438)637 743 |
| My Dog the Dinosaur - "Wacky Families Series" Jackie French . The second installment in this new series from Jackie sees a family who buys a dog from the pound only to discover he in fact is a dinosaur. Gunk and his family will entertain the children with their antics. Also look out for My Mum the Pirate which is the first in the series. Both available through HEA. To check out what Jackie French is up to go to: http://www.jackiefrench.com |
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