This year’s Waikato Children's Literature Association
seminar features guest authors Stacy Gregg, Susan Brocker (pic below) and Philippa Werry.
They will discuss how they create stories and novels with a basis in fact.
Stacy Gregg is author of the Pony Club Secrets
and Pony Club Rivals series. The Princess and the Foal was
inspired by the story of Olympic equestrienne Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of
Jordan. The Island of Lost Horses is based on the world’s rarest horses,
the Abaco Barbs, while The Girl Who Rode the Wind sweeps between Italy
in WWII and the present day.
Philippa Werry is known for her fiction and
non-fiction books about war including Anzac Day, Best Mates. Enemy at the
Gate is a novel set in Wellington and based around the polio epidemic of
1936-37.
Some of Susan Brocker’s books are non-fiction about
wildlife conservation, social history and natural science. She brings history
alive in her stories that include Brave Bess and 1914: Riding into
War.
This seminar will interest authors, aspiring
authors, teachers, librarians and book lovers in general. It promises to be
inspiring, educational and entertaining. A tasty lunch is included in the
registration fee, which is only $40 for non-members of WCLA, $20 for students
or $30 for WCLA members.
We look forward to seeing you there!
To register to attend, or for more information,
email gerri.judkins@southwell.school.nz
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