So it has just occurred to me that I haven’t yet shared my book cover on the blog.
WHAT?!
I’m so sorry. You used to be the first people I came to with big (and small) news but I’ve since been seduced by Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and the challenge of fitting everything I want to say into 140 characters. And it is a challenge, too. Because I do like to speak (type) the words.
Many many many of the words.
Anyhow, I am here now to reveal to you….the cover of my debut author/illustrator picture book!
…drumroll…
This is Olive, the star of “All the Lost Things” coming out 2015 – published by Peter Pauper Press NY.
I’m a bubbling mix of excitement and fear and nerves and all of the feelings.
I hope it turns out good, and that people like it. My fingers are firmly crossed!
In other news, school visits. I love them!
On Wednesday I had the pleasure of spending the morning with 48 amazing
Year 1 students at Freshwater Bay Primary School and we had such a great time.
We talked a little about stories and how you can use pictures to help you come up with a story and then we drew pictures and then we painted stones. And then when we were meant to be cleaning up some of snuck outside and drew more pictures but sssh don’t tell Mrs King ;)
The activity was to make story stones by painting people/animals/items on stones and then using those stones to create stories on a scene that the kids had also painted.
Here are some photos!
(used with permission from Freshwater Bay Primary School)
(There were a lot of penguins painted. Penguins must be very popular with the kiddos!)
And once again, when I got home, I was reminded just how hard our school teachers work and what an incredible and precious job they have. Thank you, teachers, you’re awesome!
This morning I was sent some of the work the Year 1’s had done since my visit, they wrote stories about our day together and oh my if I didn’t cry actual real tears!
“And that was the best day oth my lif” <3
Mine too! Or at least one of the very best days I’ve ever had.
Thank you Irene King and Freshwater Bay Year 1’s, you guys were the absolute best!
