So the Pigeon Letters project has come to an end. I first blogged about partaking in the project back in June of this year and as of this week the project has come to a close. The project is over because the book Pigeons: Stories in the Post II has been launched and is now …
I had the slightly surreal, but completely wonderful experience recently of doing a school visit to the school of my old prep and grade one teacher – Mrs Tullo. Mrs Tullo was my first ever primary school teacher back in what I now call The Day. Back then Mrs Tullo ruled the classrooms of Watsonia …
Pigeons is the organisation behind the Pigeon Letters program I’ve been lucky enough to be involved with this year. I blogged about the program earlier this year, but in short it involves an author (some of which this year include Tony Wilson, Sally Rippin, Kirsty Murray and myself) writing letters back and forth with a …
As technology changes and evolves there are fewer things on earth that have yet to be touched by the far-reaching tentacles of the Digital Age. In fact, the Digital Age has grown to be so dominant with its infinite number of tentacles that it now wails on octopi and other creatures limited to a finite …
I was pretty tired after Book Week last and so apologies to the grade five and six students of Karoo Primary School for not getting their stories up sooner. Karoo Primary out in Rowville was my last Book Week stop and, as had been the case at all the schools I visited, the stories that …
The next school I visited during my Book Week travels this week was North Fitzroy Primary School. The kids there were so enthusiastic about my visit that they got me to sign their arms in texta. Some wanted me to sign their foreheads but I turned them down for fear of getting an angry email …
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I was out at the very nice Aitken College in Greenvale yesterday for another Book Week session. And you know you’re out of the city when there’s a windmill on campus. Almost-in-the-country air FTW! I did a session with the Year 6 students at Aitken College and out of the discussion about workshopping ideas and …
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Yesterday I spent the first day of Book Week at St Francis of Assisi Primary School in Mill Park, Victoria. The grade six students that I did sessions with there were keen book readers and keen writers too. I’ve been finishing up my school sessions with little lessons in story writing and by the end …
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This week is officially Book Week at schools and libraries across Australia. And Book Week means author visits – which are just as much fun for the author as they are for the kids. Today I was out at St Francis of Assisi Primary School in Mill Park all day doing sessions with groups of …
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