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Our Fantastic Scholastic Kiwi Country Book Fair
Wednesday 17 August 2016
Tuesday 16 August 2016
NZ Book Council visiting authors
We were privileged recently to have authors who were finalists in the NZ Childrens Book Awards spend time with us at Frankley
Rebecca Beyer and
Linley Wellington, Pukeariki librarians shared some of their writing secrets, including a fun fractured fairy tale, with Rms 1-8. They also read their latest co-written book,Tamanui The Brave Kokako of Taranaki. You can read more about the exciting project to re-introduce the kokako to Taranaki HERE
Renowned Taranaki author David Hill
workshopped with a number of our senior students, each of whom was requested to bring a piece of their own writing along. David was very complimentary about the quality of work that was enthusiastically shared and used this as a springboard to demystify and simplify the writing process. We learned several writing ‘tricks’ and the writer’s motto, STEAL - ideas from books and others’ work. We were also told never to throw any writing away, no matter how incomplete, as we might want to come back to it one day.
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