Four funny and fabulous sessions at BISS Puxi!
November 1, 2016 at 8:12 pm | Posted in Books about Chinese Zodiac, Chinese Calendar Tales, Shanghai schools, Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: BISS Puxi, The Tale of a Dark Horse, The Tale of Chester Choi, The Tale of Pin Yin Panda
Warm thanks to my friend Liz Wood at BISS Puxi who hosted me today in four fun Chinese Calendar Tales sessions with the Grade Ones, Grade Twos, Grade Fours and Grade Fives! The Grade Ones met my hungry Chinese dragon in The Tale of Chester Choi; the Grade Twos learned all about the Legend of Lord Buddha’s Race and why pandas aren’t in the Chinese Zodiac when I read them The Tale of Pin Yin Panda; and the Grade Fours and Fives took an exciting trip along the Silk Road with The Tale of A Dark Horse! We all had a lot of fun, and learned some fantastic Chinese history and folklore along the way! See you all again soon!
Yippee! I’m flying up to Shanghai tomorrow!
October 29, 2016 at 9:24 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
I’m as excited as a squawking parakeet with a purple tail!! Tomorrow I fly up to Shanghai to visit 7 fabulous schools with Ming Kee Monkey and all her Chinese Calendar Tales cousins! We’re going to have a blast! Make sure you visit my blog every day to keep up with all the photos and fun!
Just 4 weeks to go in my Hilarious Halloween writing competition!
October 27, 2016 at 3:01 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentMwa ha ha!
With Halloween just around the corner, I expect that you’re all getting your costumes ready for a fun evening of Trick or Treat! But you’d better be taking notes…and getting ideas 🙂 …because there are only 4 weeks left to enter my Hilarious Halloween Story Writing Competition! See my Clever Competitions page (above) for all the details!!
A fabulous morning with the Grade 3s at PLK CKY School!
October 24, 2016 at 2:19 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Huge thanks to the lovely Joli Moore at PLK CKY School for hosting me again today! It was great to meet the fabulous P3s, and we had a lot of fun learning How to Write a Riveting Story in 3 fabulous workshop sessions! I hope to see some great entries in my Hilarious Halloween story writing competition on my Clever Competitions page above, using your Story Planning Sheets as a handy tool!
It’s time for a Horribly Hilarious Halloween Story Competition!
October 11, 2016 at 12:39 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
It’s that time of the year again, when ghouls, ghosts and goblins are grabbing their galoshes, witches and warlocks are wondering where they put their broomsticks, and mums and dads are saving all their pennies for their kids’ upcoming dentist appointments! Yes, Halloween is around the corner, and it’s time for another international Halloween Story competition! Only this time, while you’re scaring me silly, I also want you to make me LAUGH! Go to my Clever Competitions page above right away for all the details and conditions! The deadline is FRIDAY 25TH NOVEMBER, so you’d better get your pencils and wits sharpened and GET WRITING!
Pssst…if you want some hints on how to write a prize-winning story, click on my new Story Writing Hints on the menu above!
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
September 16, 2016 at 10:16 am | Posted in Books about Chinese Zodiac, Children's Chinese Zodiac Books, Chinese Calendar Tales, Chinese festivals, Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon cakes, Moon Festival, The Legend of Chang'e, The Legend of the Rabbit in the Moon, The Tale of Rhonda Rabbit
A very happy Mid-Autumn Festival to you! I hope that you’re all enjoying the holidays today in Hong Kong. The most famous features of the Festival are moon cakes and lanterns…and here is a beautiful lantern photographed by my beautiful daughter Beatrice – thank you Bea! The Mid-Autumn Festival is also called – you guessed it – the Moon Festival, and sometimes the Mooncake Festival or the Lantern Festival! There are some lovely Chinese folk stories associated with the Moon Festival, including the Legend of the Moon Goddess, Chang’e, and the Legend of the Rabbit in the Moon. If you want to read more, you can click here: http://www.moonfestival.org/the-legend-of-chang-e.html, or, better yet, read my Chinese Calendar Tale, The Tale of Rhonda Rabbit! You can even buy it here: http://www.auspicioustimes.com/product/the-tale-of-rhonda-rabbit/!
If your family loves books…here’s an event for your mums and dads on International Literacy Day!
August 25, 2016 at 10:32 am | Posted in Being an Author, Bookshop event, children's literacy, Uncategorized | 1 CommentTags: children's literacy, Room to Read
What a great way to celebrate reading books and to help kids in need in Asia and Africa to read too! I look forward to seeing you there!
Remember to register here: https://www.anpasia.com/public/event/RegistrationForm/45465E477946455D43
Just one month to go in my Sunny Summer Poetry Competition!
July 30, 2016 at 10:34 am | Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Hello again everybody – I hope that you’re all having a wonderful summer! I know that most of you are still on holidays – so if you’re getting a little bored and want to get those brain cells working again, why not enter my Sunny Summer Poetry Competition! You’ve still got one month to go! Go to my Clever Competitions tab (above) for all the information and conditions!
And for all those Southern Hemisphere kids back at school in their winter uniforms, why not enter the challenge too – you can have a lovely time imagining it’s summer in your heads! I can’t wait to read your poems!
Just 6 more days to vote for Rodney Ram!
March 5, 2016 at 4:54 pm | Posted in Book Awards, Chinese Calendar Tales, Chinese Zodiac, Uncategorized | 1 CommentTags: Chinese Calendar Tales, Chinese Zodiac, The Golden Dragon Book Awards, The Tale of Rodney Ram, Year of the Sheep
YIKES! There are just 6 more days to vote for my handsome, romantic, shy ram and The Tale of Rodney Ram in The Golden Dragon Book Awards 2016 Younger Readers Section! So if you’re a Hong Kong school student, teacher or parent, make sure you cast your vote at http://www.hkgoldendragonawards.org/voting.html right away!
An Homage to Hobart with my mischievous Monkey!
March 5, 2016 at 4:27 pm | Posted in Hobart, Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: The Tale of Ming Kee Monkey, Year of the Monkey
Farewell to my beautiful home town Hobart, which I left with great sadness to return home to Hong Kong yesterday! It was wonderful to come home to my family, and Bobby our dog of course, but I’m already missing the clear skies, incredible beauty, peace and calm of Hobart, and of course the delicious food, my Tassie relatives, and my friends both new and old!
So here is an homage to my birthplace, in company with my cute Monkey Bear, a.k.a. Monkey Monkey, cousin of my mischievous Ming Kee Monkey!
Early morning, Sandy Bay by the yacht club (there were even wild ducks and galahs on the grass!)
Afternoon at MONA (Tasmania’s world-famous Museum of Old and New Art), at Berriedale, nestled amongst grapevines on a bend in the Derwent River!
Driving home via Cornelian Bay, with its pretty boathouses and view of The Tasman Bridge:
We dropped in to see the Governor at Tasmania’s beautiful Government House, by the Botanical Gardens, but sadly nobody let us in!
Dusk at the famous Salamanca Place with Kelly’s Steps…
And finally, Battery Point; heritage-listed and full of historical buildings, with my dear school friend Sally Kennedy (nee Barrett) posing with Monkey Monkey in Arthur’s Circus!
Goodbye beautiful Hobart, I’ll be back next year with my next book for the Year of the Rooster!
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