Sarah Brennan Funny & Fabulous Blog

The book launch on 15 January at Bookaburra Books, Forum Atrium in Singapore, was great!

Here are some photos – and you can see the rest on my website at the end of the month!

Rhonda Rabbit’s on the Radio!

Rhonda Rabbit hopped along to RTHK3 Radio today! Listen to my interview with Sarah Passmore where we chat about that cheeky Bunny – and the launch tomorrow at Bookazine Princes Building!

http://programme.rthk.org.hk/channel/radio/programme.php?name=radio3/naked_lunch&d=2011-01-21&p=3189&e=&m=episode

The Clock is Ticking!

Eleven Days to Go:

Till the deadline for my Most Unusual Christmas Story Competition! All the details and rules are on the Clever Competition link above!

Three days to Go:

To the Hong Kong Launch of The Tale of Rhonda Rabbit! There’ll be a Funny and Fabulous Reading with Sarah, a Quiz with prizes to be won with Harry Harrison, cupcakes and lemonade for the kids and wine and cheese for the grown-ups! So make sure you register with Bookazine and bounce right along – it’s going to be HOPPING!

See all the details below!

Goodbye and thank you Singapore!

Well that was a wonderful four days in Singapore, with two terrific launches at the Forum Atrium with Bookaburra Books and another at Kinokuniya Main Store in Orchard Road on Saturday, followed by two fabulous days at Singapore American School on Monday and Tuesday! Thanks for all the fun, all you clever SAS kids – you were great – and make sure you enter my Most Unusual Christmas Story competition! Photos to follow!

HOP, HOP, HOORAY! It’s another funny and fabulous Launch Party in Hong Kong…and Singapore!

Hello again to all my wonderful readers out there! Come and help me to launch that rascally rabbit Rhonda at the following Funny and Fabulous Launch Parties! Here’s your official invitation – please hop along and join us! But make sure you ask Mum and Dad first for permission before you register!

IN HONG KONG on Saturday 22 January, 2 – 4 pm:- Sarah and Harry will both be there!

IN SINGAPORE:- this weekend – Saturday 15 January 2-4pm: Sarah in person!

And if you miss that one, there’s another Funny and Fabulous Launch at Kinokuniya Main Store at 4pm!

SO HOP ON OVER – I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU THERE!

Imagine a magical garden…and a friend who is a ghost!

If you’d like to read a wonderful mystery story about a boy who discovers a magical garden, and makes friends with a little girl who is really a ghost, visit my Brilliant Books page right away! Then go to my Amazing Authors page for some fascinating facts about the author, who many people think is one of the greatest children’s authors of the twentieth century!

Rhonda Rabbit started hopping around Hong Kong today!

Uh-oh! She’s EARLY!! Rhonda Rabbit, the very naughty bunny who is the star of my new Chinese Calendar Tale for the upcoming Year of the Rabbit, got a headstart today when she hopped all the way (with me of course!) to the Kiangsu Chekiang International School in Hong Kong! We had great fun with the Grade 4s, with workshops about publishing and writing stories about Imaginary Worlds, and the first ever reading of The Tale of Rhonda Rabbit! And we’re bouncing back into the school again to say hello to the Grade 5s and Grade 6s tomorrow and the next day – I can’t wait!

HAPPY NEW YEAR – AND GET WRITING!

Hello again everyone! How was YOUR Christmas? Was it more AWESOME than AWESOME? Was it COOLER than COOL? In that case you need a wicked new word to describe it! Go to my Wicked Word for the Week NOW to find a brand new word for a brand new year!

But if your Christmas was just that little bit weird this year…maybe an alien from the planet Zorg came to stay, or maybe Father Christmas got the presents all wrong and you got a Cuban cigar while your Dad got a Nintendo playstation, or maybe the Christmas turkey came alive on the dinner table and started singing Christmas carols in ancient Greek, or maybe your Grandma danced the Highland fling in a pink tutu…

or maybe it was just that bit boring and you wish something really DIFFERENT had happened this time…

then it’s time you put pen to paper and entered my Most Unusual Christmas Story competition! See my competitions page above for all the details. You’ve got till the end of the month!

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Magnanimous New Year!

Now here is a truly MAGNANIMOUS man! And if you don’t know what that wonderful word means yet, go to my Wicked Word page right now for my last Wicked Word for the year!

It’s time for me to sign off now for Christmas – the tree is up and twinkling, but there are still mince pies to make, presents to wrap, stockings to put out for Santa, cards to write, friends to visit, LOTS of yummy food to cook and best of all, precious time to spend with my beautiful daughters, my wonderful husband and my very special cocker spaniel Bobby!

So a very happy festive season to all my fabulous friends and fans – I look forward to many happy visits to see you all next year! And remember, if you’ve got time on your hands, there’s a fabulous story to write for my Most Unusual Christmas Story Competition!!

I’ll be back and blogging in the New Year! Merry Christmas!

The Winners are Announced!

Congratulations to the winners of my “IF” competition! There were a grand total of 86 entries from 68 wonderful poets from 8 schools across Hong Kong and Singapore! First prize winner in the 8 to 10 Years Old Category was Chance Emerson from Class 5E, Canadian International School Hong Kong, and the first prize winner in the 5 to 7 Years Old Category was Raghav Pande, aged 6 from Class 2R Kowloon Junior School. See their fabulous entries, and the poems of all the other finalists, on my Competitions Page!