Tessa Duder's Visit

A famous New Zealand author visited an old school during Literacy Week (23^rd May-27^th) at Milford Primary. Tessa Duder, NZ author/editor came to tell Year 5/6 students how she writes incredibly interesting books. She was the editor of an amazing book full of Margaret Mahy’s poetries (66 poetries). She has written a great amount of books - approximately 40! “Alex” and “The Tiggie Tompson Show” are two of her books. Elizabeth from Room 1 said, “It was funny how she said that one of the books had a very strange cover.” It takes a lot of planning to do before you can start writing. Unbelievably she prefers to write chapter books instead of picture books. “It took me 5 years to plan one of my books”, Tessa replied. It was a fantastic opportunity to meet and hear from a NZ author.