It was just the start of Lunch, and the Year 7&8 Extension were up and ready to move. Where? I hear you asking, On the 28th of August 2014 the Y7&8 Extension group got the opportunity to go see 4 of New Zealand Authors in Person and Live at the Vodafone Event Centers. Juliette Mclver, Cath Mayo, Jill MacGregor, and Paula Green were the 4 main speakers. They got us out of our seats, laughing in our seats, they were all fantastic.
Two of the main speakers that I enjoyed on the day were Juliette Mclver and Jill MacGregor. Juliette Mclver had great sense of humor, she was really funny. She was basically out there and she didn’t care what people thought of her, she writes Children Picture Books which intrigued us older children too.
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Jill MacGregor was also a Great author that I liked, she had been writing about Children of the Pacific. Jill had been to multiple island writing about the children there and how they do things she had been to Tonga and thought VSA for two years, ever since then she has had a passion, about children in the Pacific.
It came around to the questioning time, and my head was absolutely blank. Before we got to the Vodafone Events Centre, I had a lot of questions. But what I wanted to know was that Who Helped them write these books?
This week both extension groups will be attending, the Storyline Festival where we will be seeing Juliette Maclver, Cath Mayo, Jill MacGregor and Paula Green. Held at the Vodafone Staduim, it's going to be a fun day.
Juliette Maclver is an, a author who writes Picture Books for children. Maclver has always enjoyed writing since a child, but thought of becoming one. She had a hope to write a children’s book's at some stage thru her life, and when she did she found it , to be a Marvellous and Fun book. Maclver decided begin a writer would be an amazing job. Maclver is currently based in Wellington.
Cath Mayo is an, writer who writes Children as well as Young adults book's. Mayo isn't only an Author but also a Musician, with a Band going by the name Gentel Annie. Born in the Maternity Hospital Auckland, born in the same room as a young girl name Penelope. Mayo goes by the name Cathrine, but prefers Cath. Mayo is currently based in Auckland.
Jill MacGregor was born in Dunedin, but now living on the Kapiti Coast where she was a School teacher many years ago. In the 1990's MacGregor went to Tonga for 2 years, where she was a teacher at VSA. MacGrefor is a picture book author as well as a writer for journals.
Paula Green is a poet and children's book writer. She has 5 written collections of poetry and has been awarded the University of Auckland Literary Fellowship in 2005. Paula edited the New Zealand best Poems and has been a judge in the NZ Post Secondary School Poetry Competition. Green is based in West Auckland.
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