Storylines Festival
Blog | Posted by Carole on Wednesday 18 June 2008
I have just returned home after a hectic week or so in New Zealand at the Storylines Festival. I appeared at free Family Days in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, along with well-known UK author and illustrator Babette Cole and many NZ authors and illustrators including Margaret Mahy, Joy Cowley, Gavin Bishop and Kyle Mewburn.
The Family Days had a full program of authors talking about their books, book readings, illustrators creating. There were activities for kids to take part in, and theatre performances by some school groups, based on visiting authors’ books. Students from Auckland Normal Intermediate and Heaton Intermediate School did terrific performances from my book Ramose: Prince in Exile.
Here are some photos I took.
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- Babette Cole and I
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- Students from St Albans School Bicultural Group performing Kapa Haka
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- Olivia, Liam, Sam and Jack. Students from Heaton Intermediate School performing excerts from Ramose:Prince in Exile
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- Ramose in Auckland Normal Intermediate School’s Ramose: Prince in Exile performance.
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- Schoolroom scene from Ramose performance.
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- Me with the cast of Auckland Normal Intermediate’s Ramose performance.
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- Ramose, Hatshepsut and me.
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- Dragon’s eye view of the South Island.
oh wow looks fantastic.
Wow Cool was it a high school
Hey havn’t posted in a while! Im halfway through DragonMoon now its brilliant! Wow New Zealand looks amazing, I have never read Ramose, but I might buy it sometime after finishing DragonMoon, Bye for now!
Connor,
It was an intermediate school. In NZ they have three levels of schools.
Danny,
Can’t remember where you live. Ramose is available in England, Australia and France.
hi carole,
havent blogged for awhile, i’ve been a bit busy,its looks like people had a great time.
vivienne
hey that picture of heaton readers is me, your book is awesome. Please come again to the storylines festival.
Liam
Liam,
I’d like to come to Storylines again, but the organisers would have to invite me first. I suspect they like a bit of variety and invite different authors each year.
that my school!