Author Visit
On Monday we were very lucky to have a visit from Kyle Mewburn who is a New Zealand author. He has written books such as Old Huhu, Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck!, Chick’s Sick, Seesaw Po, Duck’s Stuck and the Dragon Knight and Dinosaur Rescue series. Kyle lives at Miller's Flat which is about an hour away from our school.
Kyle shared some of his books with us and talked about why he writes the books he does. He mentioned where he gets his ideas and inspiration from for his books. Being an author isn't an easy task, you never know if publishers are going to accept your books or not so you can not rely on making a huge income from being an author! It can take up to two years to write a book.
Kyle took three groups of students doing some writing workshops with them. It was really neat for students to get to work through a different process for writing a story. Kyle got these students thinking really hard and they did some cool writing!
We also had a book character dress up day. Caitlyn who was Harry Potter and Esther who was Cat in the Hat won $10 credit at Scholastic for being best dressed!
Thanks for coming to see us Kyle, we look forward to getting more of your books for our school library in the future!
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