Sarah Brennan Funny & Fabulous Blog

AIEEEEYA! What a fun way to greet the Year of the Snake!

Sybil Snake was welcomed in fine style at Dymocks Camberwell this afternoon, with much hissing and shooshing and even kung fu! Here are some of the fabulous guests practicing their kick-boxing along with Sybil’s nemesis, that wise monk from Beijing! We had a reading, a quiz, and prizes galore! There were kids, mums, dads, dogs and even a man in festive lantern earrings!!!Thanks Henk and Kat for a fabulous afternoon!

MLC was ssssimply ssssuper!

A big hello to the lovely Tracey Ricchini, junior librarian extraordinaire at Methodist Ladies College, and all the lovely ladies of MLC! It was fabulous to meet you all this afternoon! I look forward to seeing  you all again sssssoon!

Thank you Richmond West Primary School!

What a great day that was today! A big thank you to Anna Wood, Deputy Principal of Richmond West Primary School in Melbourne, for inviting me to visit! We read The Tale of Sybil Snake, with some fabulous SSSSSSes and SHHHHHes and we learnt all about How to Write Riveting Stories- it was a lot of fun! Keep on reading and writing and remember, writing is Playing with Words!

Helloooo Melbourne – I’m coming back this week!

Tonight I fly to Melbourne in Australia for two terrific weeks of school visits and events! A Big Hello to all the kids at Richmond West Primary School, Scotch College, Coburg West Primary School, Doncaster Gardens Primary School and Collingwood College –  I can’t wait to meet you all and to introduce you to my lovely Sybil Snake! And if you’re near Camberwell at 2pm on Saturday 9 February, there’ll be a funny and fabulous Chinese New Year Story Reading and Booksigning with Sybil Snake and I at Dymocks Camberwell at The Well Shopping Centre, Shop 114, 793 Burke Road. So come along and join in the fun! 

The Party Girl says THANKSSssssss!

Sybil Snake, Harry Harrison and I had such fun at Bookazine Princes Building on Saturday afternoon at Sybil’s official Hong Kong launch! With over 100 kids, mums and dads, a fun story reading,  Harry’s annual quiz for everyone from the tiniest tots to the big grown-ups, lots of prizes, a big booksigning,  and yummy drinks and snacks provided by the Bookazine team, not to mention delicious wine generously donated by Essential Fine Wines, we all had a ssssimply ssssuper time!   Thank you to all my lovely fans for coming, and we’ll see  you all again at Bookazine next year! Lots of lovely photos to come!

Thank you RTHK Radio3!

A big thank you to Crystal Kwok and producer Elena Krotman for a fabulously funny half hour on RTHK Radio3 on Thursday! You can hear our interview on Crystal’s show in the RTHK archives!

SSS…sss…ss…s…Reminder: It’s Sybil Snake’s Launch Party tomorrow!!

It’s Sybil Snake’s official Hong Kong launch tomorrow and you are all warmly invited! Please come and help us celebrate! Here’s your official invitation: be there or be Ssssquare!

A lovely Saturday session at Commercial Press in Causeway Bay!

A big thank you to the wonderful Christa Tam for a terrific story reading session last Saturday at the fabulous remodelled children’s book floor at Commercial Press in Causeway Bay! It was great to see all the mums and dads and their adorable kids, who did a very good job SSSSSS-ing and SSHHHH-ing as the story progressed!

NEE NOO WOP! WHAT A WOPPING COMPETITION!

WOW! GEE WHIZZIKINS!! NEE NOO WOP!!! That was a HUGE competition! With 84 entries from 9 schools all around Asia, judging my latest Clever Competition – A Martian Christmas Story Competition – has been a GARGANTUAN effort worthy of a MEGA-MARTIAN! But at last I’m finished and the results are out! Go to my Clever Competitions page right away to see all the winning entries!

And extra special congratulations to Daniel Kim, winner of the 6 Years and Under Section; Shaan Mutreja, winner of the Grade 2 to 3, 7 Years Plus Section; and Valerie Ang, winner of the Grade 4 to 6 Section!

Hello to all you gorgeous Victoria South Horizons Kindy kids!

A big hello and thank you to all the lovely K3 kids and teachers at Victoria South Horizons! We had a wonderful afternoon today, learning all about the Chinese Zodiac animals with Pin Yin Panda – it was fun!