Hi everyone. Let’s get creative. I’m really interested to see what you come up with in response to this week’s poetry prompt. There are so many possibilities.
Thanks to everyone who has so enthusiastically embraced these weekly prompts. Your contributions to this site are much appreciated, so please keep them coming. Remember, if you’ve missed a prompt you can catch up later. And if you have other poems for children, feel free to submit them. They can be previously published as long as you retain the rights. Send submissions via email to teenawriter@gmail.com as a Word or Text document attachment and add a line or two about your writing process.
Yesterday I was so happy to see Magic Fish Dreaming illustrator, and creative sister Helene.
We have both been so busy. I really miss her!
We are absolutely delighted to be collaborating to work on a couple of special library workshops sharing the process of creating magic fish dreaming the book as well as encouraging children to imagine, create, draw and write.
It was so much fun planning the workshop! What a great chat!
Time passed so quickly.
We now a have a plan but will also respond to the wonderful input of the children and make sure they have lots of fun and opportunities to create.
The lovely Helene signed some more books for me, so on the24th of June when I do my next book signing at Mary Ryans Milton, you can pick up a book signed by both of us!
It is always a treasure to hear back from the junior readers who this book is written for.
This month we have had three junior reviews and one class review in for Magic Fish Dreaming.
We would love to hear from any of our readers, but particularly our younger readers.
Thanks so much to:
Rochelle 5 stars, loved learning about the people and animals and ‘gecko’s dance’ and ‘discovering magic’
Barry 5 stars, magic and fun, liked ‘giggle poems’ and ‘pond pests’
Class 5 who overall gave the book a 4 stars rating.
Matilda My favourite poem in the collection is called ‘Rain song,’ about the rain moving across the land and affecting banana towns, cassowaries, and fields of sugar cane. I liked the sense of movement. Read her review in full at Alphabet Soup
Joe Paczkowski 
Joe Paczkowski 
Joe Paczkowski 
With new reader in Eumundi
Ripple Poetry 
