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Pollux Books at Ap Lei Chau was great!

A bunch of bouncing bunnies came to hear me tell the story of  Rhonda Rabbit and the mightly Emperor Qin Shi Huang at Pollux Books at Ap Lei Chau on Friday:- we had so much fun! Thanks Joan and Tabbie and the teachers and kids of The Peak Montessori School for a lovely morning!

Helloooooo Renaissance College kids!

Rhonda and I had so much fun today at Renaissance College! Thanks to Shirley Chan and Andrea Walker for a fabulous day! And I look forward to seeing lots of entries from you all in my Clever Competition this month!

Here’s me with some Renaissance College fans in the library after the sessions!

Thank you Singapore International School Hong Kong!

Thank you to the wonderful kids and staff of SIS for a fantastic day today, and especially to their wonderful librarian Fanny Kwok! Rhonda Rabbit and I bounced in for some great reading sessions, and I also met an author who was only 8 years old when his book was published!! See my next post for all the details!

You’re never too young to be a published author!

Introducing Joseph K. S. Chan, a Grade 3 student who I met today at SIS. He showed me his amazing book called The Simple Guide to Extinct Primates (that’s monkeys and apes to you and me!) which was published this year by KidPubPress in the United States. Joseph spent the entire last summer holidays researching and writing the book, when he was just 8 years old! Joseph tells me that the book is available on Amazon.com if you’d like to buy it! I think that’s just fantastic. What an inspiration to all you other budding authors out there! And you can practise your writing by entering my new Clever Competition right away – see the Competition page above for all the details! Thanks Joseph – it was an honour to meet you.

Here’s the information on Amazon about Joseph’s book:

Product Description

About the Book
Primates are widespread, ranging all around the world except for the North and South Poles. They possibly originated from the late Cretaceous, when the dinosaurs still existed. This illustrated book is your guide to primates who have become extinct.

About the Author
Domain: Eukarya; Kingdom: Animalia; Phylum: Chordata; Subphylum: Vertebrata; Class: Mammalia; Order: Primata; Suborder: Haplorrhini; Infraorder: Simiiformes; Family: Hominidae; Genus: Homo; Species: Homo sapiens; Subspecies: Homo sapiens sapiens; Ethnic group: Chinese; Surname: Chan; Full name: Chan Kat Shiu Joseph; Year of birth: 2002; Place of residence: Hong Kong

Spring has sprung…and so has a new Competition!

The weather’s getting warmer at last, trees are blossoming, birds are nesting and Easter holidays are just around the corner! So what better subject for my new Clever Competition than A Haiku for Spring! See my Competition page above for all the details. NB – this competition is a short and sweet one! With holidays coming up quickly, you have just 3 weeks to get your entry in! The deadline is FRIDAY 8TH APRIL. So get out your pen, put on your imagination hat, and spring into action!

Thank you DBIS!!

After two weeks of croaking and spluttering, my voice has finally recovered…and my Hong Kong schools tour has finally begun! A huge thank you to Kate Basford and all the fabulous kids and staff at Discovery Bay International School for a wonderful day today!

And even someone just like you would find it most unfunny

If all your favourite vegetables were eaten by a bunny!!

DRUM ROLLS! TRUMPETS! THE RESULTS ARE OUT!

CONGRATULATIONS to Kristen Kwan of Kowloon Junior School and Jason Spaeth of TASIS England School for winning First Place in the 4 to 7 and 8 to 11 Year Old Categories respectively of my Rabbit Poem Competition!! 

They beat off 138 other contestants from 18 different schools in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, London and India to win a free signed copy of one of my children’s books, delivered to their home addresses!

See their wonderful poems on my Clever Competition page today, as well as the fantastic entries by the nine runners up in each category, together with two Special Mentions for the youngest entrants !

HURRY HURRY!!!

Today’s the day! The final date for submissions into my Bunny Poem competition has arrived! So get those last minute poems in right now (see my Clever Competitions page above for details) and I’ll publish the results this weekend!

Thanks to WISS and BISS Pudong in Shanghai!

Thanks to the fabulous kids and staff of WISS and BISS Pudong in Shanghai and their wonderful librarians Fiona Collins and Jenny Overman for two great days last week! Rhonda had a terrific time hopping around the schools, and it was gratifying to find that most of you were NOT cat lovers (at least not the evil kind of cat). PHEW! There’ll be more photos on my March update for my website in a couple of weeks!

Here’s me with the big guys at WISS – they were pretty cool kids! 

And with two of the prizewinners in the Friends of Rhonda Rabbit drawing competition at BISS Pudong – see my website for more photos soon!

Bunny ballads and rabbit rhymes are hopping in fast!

Thanks to all those clever writers and poets in England, Singapore and Hong Kong who’ve been sending me their entries into my Rabbit Poem competition this week! I’m having a spot of trouble with my emails, so I haven’t been able to write back to you – but never fear, they have all been entered into the Competition! And if you haven’t entered yet, go to my Clever Competitions page now!