Sarah Brennan Funny & Fabulous Blog

My first fabulous day at Shen Wai International School, Shenzhen!

Yesterday and today I met the fabulous kids, teachers and library staff at the impressive Shen Wai International School in Shenzhen! We had eight fun-filled sessions, with the Nursery Kids meeting ALL my stuffed toys and the characters in my Dirty Stories, the Pre-Kindies and Kindies meeting Chester Choi, the Grade 1s meeting Pin Yin Panda, the Grade 2s and 3s meeting Rodney Ram, the Grade 4 and 5s meeting Sybil Snake, and the big guys and girls of the Middle Years program meeting my Dark Horse! Phew! And needless to say everyone learned a lot of fascinating Chinese folklore, history and culture! My lovely host was Teacher Librarian Joanna Tomaszewska, and she looked after me like a princess! Here we are above in front of a fabulous painting of Pin Yin Panda, then there’s me under the SWIS Reading Tree simply swarming with all my stuffed toys, and last of all, a trip by tuk tuk to dinner!  It was fun!

Just 17 more days to enter my Shaggy Sheep Poem Competition!

Here is Rodney Ram writing his latest rustic air (that means folk tune to you and me !). So if Rodney can write things, so can YOU! And you’ve got just 17 more days to enter my Shaggy Sheep Poem competition! See the Clever Competition page above for all the details!

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Meet Rodney Ram at a Funny and Fabulous Event with the Asia Society this weekend in Hong Kong!

If you haven’t yet met my artistic, shy, romantic Ram yet, now is your chance!

This Saturday, Rodney Ram and I will be appearing at the Asia Society in Admiralty for a FREE special event in conjunction with educational charity RoomtoRead! There will be a story reading, book-signing, quiz with prizes, free bookmarks and colouring-in pages, and loads of fun for kids, mums and dads!

1.45pm – 4pm
Asia Society Hong Kong Center
9 Justice Dr
Admiralty
Hong Kong

Please click on the link below for more information, and to register for the event. And do come up and say hello to me – I’d love to meet you in person!

http://asiasociety.org/hong-kong/events/tale-rodney-ram

A fabulous final blast in Shanghai at YCIS Regency and Century Park campuses!

My last day in Shanghai on Wednesday this week was just fabulous! Delightful fellow-Aussie Tania McPhillamy was my teacher librarian host, and looked after me brilliantly, as I met all of primary, from Year 1 right up the Year 6! It was wonderful to have the chance to introduce them to my Chinese Calendar Tale characters, with story readings, Chinese history and folklore galore, and there were a lot of clever questions too! I look forward to receiving lots of entries from you all in my Shaggy Sheep Poetry Competition! Photos to come!

A Marvellous Monday at Montessori School Beijing!

A big warm hello to the fantastic staff and children at Montessori School Beijing, where I spent a very busy, very happy day on Monday this week! We read stories all day, with the kindy kids meeting Chester Choi, the Grade 1s meeting Pin Yin Panda and the Grade 2s meeting Rodney Ram! I had a ball! Huge thanks to Head of English Wesley Morris for hosting, and to the terrific staff for making me feel so welcome! I’ll see you all next year!

The Super Kids of Starbugs Shanghai meet Rodney Ram!

On Saturday 14, I met my good friends at Starbugs, the after-school club teaching local Shanghai kids  to read English by reading great English language stories, in two fun sessions in Puxi and Pudong! We had a hugely enthusiastic audience of kids, mums and dads, whose English was SO much better than my Chinese! As always, it was fabulous to meet you all, and big thanks especially to owner Qing Yang and the fabulous Zoe Zhang for hosting the events! I’ll see you all again next year!

A Funny and Fabulous Friday at SAS Puxi!

A big warm thank you to wonderful teacher librarian and friend Beth Rohrbeck for inviting me again to SAS Puxi on Friday – my fourth visit! It was a VERY busy day! The Grade 1s, 2s and 4s met Rodney Ram and found out all about how rice came to China! The Grade 3s learned all about How to Write a Riveting Story, and even the Kindies met all my Chinese Calendar characters and their stuffed toy cousins! And all of us talked about how important reading lots and lots of books is for the brain! It was fun, and it was fabulous! Photos to come!