Summary of upcoming visits

Post date: Sep 15, 2010 4:12:9 PM

[As reported at the network meeting on September 2, 2010]

• Joyce Dunbar and Polly Dunbar (British -- mother author & daughter author/illustrator) will be at Tanglin October 11-15.

• John Danalis, Australian author and illustrator, will be at Tanglin in late February. NB: He is writing a book about Pulau Ubin.

• Edward Hassell, a Tanglin teacher, has written a book called “Troy Story” as part of his mission to make Homer accessible. He is willing to do free visits/workshops in schools -- outside of his school hours. More information to follow -- in the interim, contact one of the Tanglin librarians.

• Kirsty Murray, an Australian author, will be at AISS on October 13th.

• Sarah Brennan, Hong Kong-based picture book author, will be in Singapore in November for Hands on Literacy and other school visits.

• Grant Clark, local author of “Monkey Magic”, is publishing a sequel called “Monkey Madness” (title?) and he is willing to visit schools -- for free.

• Monika Schroeder, a teacher at the American Embassy School, New Delhi, India, has a new book coming out.

• Marc Levitt, who specialises in third culture kids will be coming to Singapore next spring.

• Chris Smith, aka Shambles in Thailand, will be doing an iFollett workshop in Macau, November 8-9, 2010.

• Linda Sue Park is coming to SAS in March.

• Georgia Heard, a poet and teacher of poetry, will be at SAS at the end of October and may have one free day.