Sarah Brennan Funny & Fabulous Blog

Thank you to the fabulous kids and teachers at SJI International School and Chatsworth International School Orchard Campus!

Temujin and I had a fantastic time yesterday with the kids of the lovely SJI International Elementary School, roaring and screaming our heads off! Then today we met the gorgeous kids and very welcoming staff of Chatsworth International at their beautiful old Orchard Campus. What a treat! I’ll post some photos as soon as I can!

Goodbye Beijing, and hello Singapore!

It’s his final Roar! Temujin and I are heading off to Singapore today to have fun roaring like tigers and screaming like spoiled princesses with the kids of Singapore! I’ll also be speaking at the Hands On Literacy Conference at Tanglin Trust School to a Lovely Lot of Librarians and a Terrific Tribe of Teachers (how’s that for alliteration?) from all around Asia – that’s going to be fun! So hello Singapore and adios amigos, I’ll tell you all about it when I get back!

What is the most IMAGINATIVE word in the English language?

It’s the word “IF“.

This is the word all writers use when they think up their wonderful stories. “If” makes anything possible – the only limits are the boundaries of your imagination!

So I’m dedicating this November to the wonderful word “If”.

My Awesome Author this month wrote her world-famous children’s classic story when she asked “What IF there were tiny people living in the walls and skirting boards of the houses of human beings, that looked like us, and felt like us, and had hopes and dreams like us, but were only 9 inches tall?”.  My Brilliant Book is the result of that question! And to continue the theme, my Competition this month is to write a poem called “IF”. See my Competitions page to find out all about it!

AND THE WINNER IS…

Hello all you horrible fiendish ghouls, werewolves, witches, ghosts and aliens out there! I hope you all enjoyed frightening the life out of your neighbours last night! And just to celebrate the end of Halloween, the winners of my Haunting Haiku competition have just been announced! Congratulations to Jasmine Yim of Class 5E, Canadian International School (CDNIS) Hong Kong!  Jasmine won first place in my competition with a clever two part haiku about a very sinister skeleton! To see her entry, and the nine runners-up, go to my Competitions Page right now! Or something horrible might happen to you – wa- ha- ha- ha……..

The Dog Blog returns with a Hairy Haiku!

WOOOFFF! It’s me, Bobby, back again with the best, most fantastic, most extraordinarily wonderful haiku in the world. I’m INORDINATELY proud of this poem (and if you don’t know what that means, go to my Mum’s new Wicked Word for the Week!) It’s all about what I did last night… Mum didn’t appreciate it, but I can’t think why.

LAST NIGHT

I am an angel

Even when I trash the bins

Like I did last night.

Bobby, Monday, 25 October 2010

Now if I, a mere cocker spaniel, can write a brilliant haiku like that, so can you! Only six days left to go! Get your entry in!

Just 8 days to go: Vive la République!

Et voilà! The kids of French International School, Hong Kong have entered the fray in my Haunting Haiku Competition, with 30 great entries! So will it be the French who dominate the winners’ list? Or the Canadians? Or will it be YOU? Hurry up and get that entry in – just click on my Competitions Page above for all the details!

Thank you Ashok, Kathyia, Miriam, Shawana, Dominic and all the other Cranbrook Primary kids!

Well that was fun! I had a great Skype conversation with a whole lot of Grade 6 kids and their teacher Junaida Bana at Cranbrook Primary School in Essex in England on Wednesday, and we talked about everything from food in Hong Kong to favourite books to why I love being an author to the strangest thing I’ve ever seen in China! Thanks kids and Junaida for a great time! See you next February!

London Calling: A big HELLO to the students at Cranbrook Primary School in Essex!

What fun! I’ll be having a video call with the kids of Cranbrook Primary School in Essex, UK, this afternoon when they’ll be asking me all sorts of questions about my books and about Hong Kong and China, not to mention school life for kids living here! So a big warm Jo San to you all, and if any of my Hong Kong fans want to say hello to your UK counterparts, why not post a comment to this blog?

THE CLOCK IS TICKING – stop this intransigence!!

Only 12 more days to go to get your entry into my Haunting Haiku Competition! Hurry up or that timebomb is going to explode! But remember to follow the rules on my Competition page to complete your entry!

And if you are STUBBORNLY, UNREASONABLY refusing to write an entry, well that makes you my new Wicked Word for the Week! Check it out on the Wicked Words page!

CDNIS is going for gold again!

You’ve got to hand it to the kids of Canadian International School Hong Kong – they’ve been busy sending me horribly scary haikus for the last couple of weeks! But what’s happened to all you other kids out there? Where are you all? Have you been kidnapped by an alien from the planet Zurg ? Or maybe you’ve just glued all your fingers to your lunchbox?? Or has your brain been occupied by an evil brain-occupying octopus??? I’m worried about you! Quick, send me an entry into my Haunting Haiku competition to prove to me that you’re still alive!   Details on my Competitions Page!