Today, I dropped in an author Zoom to see Grade 2 at the International School of Paris in France.
We spoke about Bad Panda and I gave them my top tips on planning a story using objects in the classroom. The pupils had heaps of questions for me and I told them all about where ideas come from and how to make a book.
Thank you so much to the brilliant staff and pupils at ISP for such a bearilliant event.
I’m thrilled to announce that I will be the University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children’s Writer in Residence 2022. I’m so honoured (and a little bit daunted) to follow in the footsteps of previous fellows – all of whom are my writing heroes.
I’ll be blogging about my experience so stay tuned next year to hear what I get up to.
Rounding off the Bad Panda Blog Tour is the fantastic The Sapling. Check out Pearl’s interview here.
And don’t forget to catch up with all the brilliant bloggers who joined us for the tour. Massive panda hugs of thanks to Desna, Zac, Adele, Tris and Pearl and The Sapling.
It’s the penultimate day of the Bad Panda Blog Tour NZ and we are dropping in on the lovely Tris at The Book Whisperer. Have a read of her brilliant review here.
Kia ora from day three of the Bad Panda blog tour NZ and were we are stopping off to visit Adele Broadbent at What Book Next?. Have a read of Adele’s post here.
It’s day two of the Bad Panda blog tour NZ and we are visiting Zac McCallum at My Best Friends Are Books! Have a read of my guest post here and find out about the day I met Sheena Dempsey and her massive red coat.
Happy Publication Day to All About Diwali by me and Aditi Kakade Beaufrand!
This book is stunning!
Illustrated throughtout by the immensely talented Aditi, the book is packed full of facts, recipes and activities to get you in the mood for Diwali later this year.
It’s day one of the Bad Panda blog tour NZ and we are stopping off at BookTrailers4KidsAndYA! Have a read of Desna’s wonderful review of the book here.
Sheena and I kicked off Wednesday morning with a Bad Panda interview with Zac McCallum, school librarian and blogger at My Best Friends are Books. This week marks the release of Bad Panda in New Zealand and Australia so, despite lockdown, it didn’t seem right not to mark the occasion.
We chatted about how the book came to be, our favourite illustrations, how to create names for pandas that look like a sack of potatoes and Sheena talked us through how to draw our very own Lins.
Thank you so much to everyone who came along and made my morning so much fun and thank you to Zac for hosting a brilliant event.
Thank you so much to Discover Story Centre for having me and Sheena! We took part in an Bad Panda online reading and drawalong and if you came along, do share your drawing with us – we’d love to see them.
Here’s mine:
