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Two
well-known Australian authors, Leigh Hobbs and Scot Gardner, travelled
to Ingham in early May to speak with students from throughout the
district about writing and being an author. Together with the Children's
Book Council of Australia, (Queensland Branch), the Hinchinbrook Shire Library
obtained funding from RADF to host the authors in our town. This, the
second Books North Children's Literature Festival, saw the extension of
author workshops to the smaller towns in the North Queensland
area.
In excess
of 500 students, both Primary and Secondary, from Abergowrie to Forrest
Beach attended the sessions at Gilroy Santa Maria College, enjoying the
speakers immensely. Laughter was heard across the sporting fields as
Leigh Hobbs helped students create their own fictional characters as
well as draw his own famous Old Tom and Scot Gardner told of his
winning Red Faces performance and the events and observations that
become the seeds for his novels. Both authors attended a book signing at
the library after school and we happy to sell copies of their novels and
meet some young Hinchinbrook readers.
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