Family, Friends and Animal Adventures!

In this highly entertaining session Belinda shares stories with children about being an author, her books and where she gets her inspiration from. This is a fun, interactive session with stories about her writing as a child, how she became a children’s author, and the key elements of narrative, using examples from her popular junior fiction books, such as Aussie Kids - Meet Zoe and Zac at the Zoo, the Lulu Bell series which was inspired by her childhood living in a vet hospital, and The Daredevil Princess inspired by fairytales. Belinda also discusses The Sun Sword Trilogy, a fantasy adventure series for boys and girls, written for her own three children. Fun stories, photographs and lively Q&A encourage kids to get excited about books, reading and writing.

• childhood aspirations
• drawing on real life experiences and memories to create stories eg living with the Bardi people in WA, growing up in a vet hospital and fun animal adventures.
• themes such as celebrating diversity, friendship, family, coping with change, kindness and protecting the environment 
• key elements of narrative – setting, character and problems
• the creative writing process
• reading an excerpt from The Daredevil Princess
• Q&A