Paridhi visited our classroom last term to motivate the children's narrative writing. She demonstrated how she illustrates her story books, read one of her stories and completed some guided drawing with the students. The children were very engaged and interested in Paridhi presentation. They were wowed when she used her technology to show how her draft drawings could be turned into the finished coloured illustrations. The students also loved her story book, Maharaja’s Quest, and enjoyed findin [...]

Candice's presentation for our middle school children was very well received and the group selected for the writing workshop were excited and productive.

Thanks for all the work you do behind the scenes to enable these great things to happen.

Kim has just left our school and she is truly a gifted artist, author and speaker. I have not enjoyed an author visit so much. Her energy and obvious love she has for her work is infectious and the Year 2 children were captivated. The year 7 students who helped move her equipment were enthralled by her and her work and Kim is so open with children they would have kept her talking all day if I hadn’t shooed them back to class. We would like to book Kim to visit again in August if possibl [...]

Nadia was a pleasure to work with. Her preparation prior to the Festival ensured that the guest authors were well versed in what they would discuss and the format of their sessions. She created a warm and welcoming ambience on stage and involved all the participants equally. She was a calm and reassuring presence for our novice presenters and they all had a very positive experience thanks to her assistance. Nadia has a professional and engaging manner and creates a great rapport with all those s [...]

Tim was great. He was well-prepared and encouraging to the students. He has a genuine, relatable style and was able to speak to a wide range of year levels in an age-appropriate fashion.

Karen was amazing with the children. She got them to open up and think about things in a different way.

Tristan was on time, well-prepared and very engaging. He pitched his talk to Year 7s perfectly and it was a good mix of talk, video and music. Students commented very favourably afterwards and hopefully picked up some useful tips for creative writing.

Gregg was absolutely amazing! Our students and staff were so excited to meet Gregg and he was very generous with his time in drawing pictures and autographing, and he even did special drawing of an emu which is our school totem. Gregg truly inspired both teachers and staff with his stories and tips on writing that I have since heard teachers talking about. We loved his messages on culture and being respectful and the information about Tiddalick frogs and many other things. Gregg was engaging and [...]

The workshop was engaging and the boys were immediately hands-on.

Cori was a hit amongst our boys. The boys loved listening to her read her books and talk to them about some of her favourite books. As a school, we were lucky enough to have Cori for three days and she visited all classes from Prep to Year 3. One of the activities that Cori did with our boys was to write a continuing story. At each classroom she visited, she added to the story. We are planning to read this story on assembly to the whole school. Also, before leaving our school Cori gifted us a [...]

Both Veresdale and Woodhill schools enjoyed Martin's Visits. The children loved seeing the process that Martin engages in when illustrating and contributing their ideas. He captured their imagination and encouraged them to experiment with ideas and drawing etc. Thank you for recommending Martin for our visit this year.

Extremely relevant, engaging, useful resources and so many takeaway ideas for me to utilise straight away.