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The Results are Out for my Autumn Haiku Competition!

What a fabulous lot of entries there were in my Autumn Haiku competition! There were more than 60 entries from 15 schools in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taiwan, South Africa and the UK! The entries were of a very high standard, and it was extremely difficult for me to choose the winners! But choose I did, and the winning entries in each category have now been published on my Clever Competitions page – so click on the tab above right away to get in the Autumn mood with some truly wonderful poems! Special congratulations to Kairavi Sivasankar, 7 years old, Year 3, German Swiss International School, Hong Kong for winning First Place in the Grade 1 to 3 Section and Gabby Green, 11 years old, Class 5B,  Australian International School Hong Kong for winning First Place in the Grade 4 to 6 Section.

Have patience!

Have patience all you clever writers out there – the results of my Autumn Haiku competition are coming soon! It was a busy weekend so I’ve only just started the judging now. There are some truly wonderful entries. So hang in there…it won’t be long!

Congratulations Harry!

You’ll all know Harry Harrison’s amazing children’s illustrations from our Chinese Calendar Tales, not to mention those Dirty Stories – but did you know that Harry’s also an award-winning cartoonist? Here are the awards he’s won so far this year:

• Award for Excellence in Editorial Cartooning at this years SOPA 2012 Awards:  http://www.sopasia.com/awards/2012-awards/
• ISES Esprit Award for Best Event Film-Making (artwork): http://networkedblogs.com/Dmkqn
• 16th Human Rights Press Award for the FCC Hong Kong – for the fourth year in a row! http://fcchk.org/article/16th-human-rights-press-awards-winners-list

Congratulations Harry – and thanks for being my Funny and Fabulous Illustrator!

Tick tock, tick tock – just four days left to enter my Autumn Haiku competition!

The deadline for my Autumn Haiku competition is this Friday, 26th October! So if you haven’t sent in your entry yet, you’d better sharpen your pencil and get writing! See my Clever Competitions page above for all the details!

It’s time to climb a mountain!

Happy Chung Yeung Holiday to you all! Legend has it that on this day, a boy named Heng Jing saved his village by the Ruhe River by climbing a mountain and offering the plague devil some wine made from Chrysanthemum flowers. The wine killed the devil and the village was saved! Ever since, it has been auspicious to climb a mountain on Chung Yeung Holiday.  So which mountain did you climb today? Was it Hong Kong’s famous Lion Rock (pictured above) or the Dragon’s Back, or maybe just Victoria Peak! Or maybe you climbed a mountain in a different country altogether! Wherever you went, I hope the view was wonderful!

Viva Las Vegas and Henderson and the school librarians of Clark County!

A big HELLO to all the fabulous school librarians of Clark County, Nevada! It was wonderful to meet you all today by Skype at your weekly conference! I hope you all enjoy reading my Chinese Calendar Tales, not to mention those Dirty Stories! I look forward to meeting you all again soon. Many thanks to Juli Clark of CCLSA and Jennifer Nelson of Eliassen Creative LLC for setting it all up.

Just 11 more days to enter my Autumn Haiku Competition!

If you haven’t yet written your Autumn Haiku for my Clever Competition, you’d better get your skates on! There are just 11 days to go to get your entry in! See my Clever Competitions page above for all the details about how to enter!

Sssss…sss…sss…sss

Here’s a tantalising snippet from Harry Harrison’s amazing illustrations for our Chinese Calendar Tale for next year which is going off to the printers VERY soon! No prizes for guessing what Chinese Zodiac beastie  it’s all about! And if you don’t know what that word “tantalising” means you need to go to my Wicked Word page (above) right away! Try it out on your Mum and Dad tonight!