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Choose Your Own Adventure!
To tie in with the 2025 Book Week theme, ‘Book an Adventure’, Dave Lowe has adapted his popular ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ workshop, as a ‘presentation’-style 45- / 60-minute session for large groups of students, from Years 3 to 8. In this fun, highly-interactive session, Dave will share insights into ideas-generation and plotting, and give each student a story template, as well as all the tips and tricks they’ll need to make their own short ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style book that they can take home and try out on friends and family.
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| Speaker | Location | Tour dates | Book now |
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Gold Coast | 20 Oct - 22 Oct 2025 | ||
Gold Coast/Brisbane | 10 Nov - 11 Nov 2025 | ||
Brisbane | 23 Feb - 27 Feb 2026 | ||
Sydney | 26 Feb - 26 Feb 2026 | ||
Brisbane / Gold Coast / Sunshine Coast | 10 Mar - 12 Mar 2026 |
What people are saying
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Samantha Wheeler visited Wooloowin State School on Wednesday 28 August and presented 4, one hour sessions for Years 3 - 6 students. Her presentations were tailored to each of the year level student groups. The students were totally engaged in the presentation and this was due to Samantha's style of presentation with anecdotes and information about her books. She also discussed the art of writing with the students, and as Writing is a focus for us at Wooloowin this year, her talks hit the mark. A [...]
During our Book Week celebrations this year we were delighted to have Serena Geddes spend time with our students from Kindergarten to Year 6. With the younger students (Kindy – Yr 2) she spoke with enthusiasm about the way her illustrations make it into books and entertained the students with her drawings making sure there was collaboration from the students as to what she drew. One of our students was chosen to help her as she read Samuel’s Kisses and he will certainly remember thi [...]
Thanks, Katrina, for sharing your talents and passion as an author. You are an inspiration!
Dimity did a great job off the cusp with filling in at the last minute. Next time we would probably have her writing workshop talk about mythical creatures and dragons to tie in with Marc's drawing of the dragons from Deltora Quest. This way the writing group that went first would have a link to use when they went to the drawing workshop.
Morsi showed a contagious commitment and was an excellent communicator. His target audiences are without doubt teenagers and adults. Having Morsi at our school was very positive and eye opening! TheDanish People’s Party got more than half the votes in the last election in this region, so there are many prejudices against people with foreign backgrounds. Morsi’s presentations became very real when we the following Wednesday was visited by a class from Ellekærskolen in Aarhus where more than 80% o [...]
We had a lovely Literature Event yesterday. Barry Jonsberg was fantastic, all the sessions went smoothly and we have had great feedback from the staff and students. Barry’s sessions had the students laughing and applauding throughout. We are now thinking about next year and would love to have Barry back. We had a great time, thanks so much.
Giuseppe was excellent for our Year 6 children. He came early and spoke with the teacher about the exact expectations and what the students wanted to get out of the session. He catered for this in his presentation and gave some great examples of how students could get started with drawing images. His presentation was excellent and well thought out and planned. At the conclusion, he took the time to go around and speak with each student and share some ideas and opinions on some of their drawings [...]
Your session was incredibly well-considered and you engaged brilliantly with the students. They loved hearing about the publishing process and getting a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a book. We loved getting to know you as a person and a storyteller.
Katherine’s visit was nothing short of exceptional. All of our teachers were delighted with her sessions, noting how engaging and accessible she was for every year level. The boys absolutely adored her—her ability to connect with them was remarkable. At our recent P&F meeting, parents shared how impressed they were that their sons came home talking nonstop about Katherine and her books. For many families, it was the highlight of Book Week, with boys eager to retell her stories and discuss what [...]
Melinda reinforced many of the ideas we have been sharing with the teachers, about being a visible reader, along with her own experiences of reading and how to get young people reading and building a good reading culture, including author visits and finding the right book. Best of all she read us a story, which fitted well with an overarching theme of Wellness.
Nick is great to work with and the boys were very engaged by his presentations.
Today went really well; David was great - the kids learnt a lot.
Hi Ian, Thank you for bringing such a great element to our program. Everyone loved your sessions. We are looking forward to working with you again soon.