Tracey Roper
Tracey Roper is the one half of incredibly talented Queensland sister "act" Tracey Roper and Lisa Hollier. Their debut picture book Hullabazoo! will have you staring at each page in pure amazement.
Lisa and Tracey's combined sessions include speaking about the making of Hullabazoo! which includes a screening and detailed explanation of the processes involved in bringing this wonderful picture book to life.
Hullabazoo was 4 years in the making! Lisa and Tracey will talk about how they became involved in writing and illustrating and show the students what it takes to create a picture book like Hullabazoo. Their session will also include interactive games, a Q&A and students will be given the opportunity to create their very own Hullabazoo illustration.
Testimonials
Lisa and Tracey exceeded our expectations!!! From our Prep class to our Year 8 class they were engaging, humorous, informative and warm. All classes were highly engaged and all of our teachers said that they were the best speakers we have ever had at our school! They were brilliant. We would definitely book Tracey and Lisa again and highly recommend them to any other school.
Tracey Roper - Mitchell State School, August, 2014.What WONDERFUL authors we had! (Lisa Hollier and Tracey Roper and Richard Newsome).
Our Book Week was a huge success, in no small part due to the fabulous presentations , hard work and obliging attitude of Lisa & Tracey, for the Junior School , and Richard for the Senior School.
In both instances , the teachers were rapt, the kids are still excited , the principal is over the moon with the success of it all, I am just plain delightedÂ…..
Thank you again so much.
Tracey Roper - Oxley State School, Book Week, August, 2013.Tracey was great, I would book her again and recommend her to other schools.
Tracey Roper - Holy Family Primary School, August, 2013.Tracey and Lisa were great. They certainly met expectations and I would not hesitate to recommend them to others.
Tracey Roper - Brisbane School of Distance Education, August, 2013.Last Friday, Year 1 students were treated to a very entertaining and informative session with Lisa Hollier and Tracey Roper. Their presentation was a visual feast of images and creativity. Every minute of the one hour session was effectively used and the students remained engaged and interested the whole time.
Both Lisa and Tracey displayed good rapport with the students and were able to keep them interested with a variety of activities during their presentation.
Tracey explained how she uses photographs, adobe Photoshop and finally her skills as an artist and painter to complete the pictures. We were privileged to be able to see a range of her original pieces that were used in the book. It was very enlightening to see how she, and her sister, plan for particular scenes to be photographed. Along with the students, I learnt how it is possible to create something very special using a combination of photos and your imagination.
The students also enjoyed seeing "Hullabazoo" on the large screen and having it read by the author! Lisa stepped the students through the rhyming text and then had some rhyming activities and a quiz to test their knowledge about some animals that featured in the story.
Congratulations to Lisa and Tracey on the publication of this outstanding children's picture book. I would highly recommend them to any Primary School audience. I wish them all the very best in their future book projects and look forward to welcoming them back to St Martin's next year.
Tracey Roper - St. Martin
Queensland
Speaker type
- Illustrator / Designer