Visiting Author

From the beginning of Term 2 Waitemata have been enjoying the book 'The Tooth'. This week we had the pleasure of a visit from the author of this book, Des Hunt. He had a captive audience as he shared about his life, his work as a teacher (in chemistry and physics), and how he got into writing children's books. He brought along some props to use to explain his development as an author. 

Using a burner to illustrate his curiosity for how things work
(and linking this to his first novel)

Showing the internal workings of the burner to show how he wanted to understand it and improve it
(just like he wanted to improve his first novel)

With an assistant to demonstrate how a story should hook a reader
and keep them interested through to the end

A few lucky students also were lucky to be included in a workshop later in the day run by Des Hunt.