Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Maria Gill

On Monday Maria Gill visited our school.  She is a New Zealand author and we have lots of her books in our school library.  We learned about native birds and their predators and how we need to look after our special NZ native birds.  She chose ten children to represent the predators and the native birds.  Visit her website at   http://www.mariagill.co.nz/

Watch out Birds!  Predators on the Hunt!
Maria Gill - Author
Evie with one of the Native Bird Puppets

1 comment:

KG said...

I was so lucky to be able to sit in on Maria Gill's presentation of her books and how she goes about writing. I couldn't believe how long it took to get a book published! And how many times she proof reads (sometimes up to 50 times!!) whew that is a lot of proof reading. It was great to see that writers use planning and story boards just like we do. So keep practising Room 16 and maybe some of you will become authors with publised books.