The first session was with our Explorers team (Yrs 1-3) and focused on the picture book That's Not a Hippopotamus. The most memorable moment was the dance she had them all perform to try and coax the very shy soft toy hippopotamus she had brought along out of her carrier bag!
The second session was with our Adventurers team (Yrs 4-6) which focused on the book Yak and Gnu. During this session Juliette asked the children where we might see someone using a kayak or canoe - the most amusing suggestion was "in a toilet"!!
The last session with our Navigators team (Yrs 7-8) was after a break for morning tea and focused on the books Gwendolyn and then Queen Alice's Palaces. Before she shared the second story she explained how she used rhyme in this book and then had the students come up with as many words as they could that rhymed with "knew" and "due". She then had them rank them from most likely to least likely to be used as building material for a palace.
With each group Juliette spoke about where she writes, sharing photographs of herself writing while doing yoga - authors ARE really good at telling stories! She explained that she likes rhyming stories and likes to write on blank paper without lines, that way she can move ideas around using arrows and make lists of words that rhyme with each other down the side of the page. Juliette explained that when she was at school she didn't like re-checking her writing but that now days she liked re-reading it and trying to make it better and better. She explained that she had had lots of stories rejected by publishers but that she keeps trying to improve them and some books were rejected several times before they were finally published.
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