Children's (Early Bird) Book Week Zoom Showcase Review - 11am, Saturday, 15 August 2020
A Zoom Review:
Children's
Children's
(Early Bird)
Book Week
Online Showcase
INTRODUCTION:
REVIEW PART ONE:
Meet George Ivanoff
by
Nathaniel Davies
REVIEW PART TWO:
Meet Two Young Authors
by
Meet George Ivanoff
by
Nathaniel Davies
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George, a highly
experienced author, is a wonderful mentor for young writers. In this event he
was promoting his recent non-fiction works consisting of
and soon to be released
“The Human Body Survival Guide”,
which
comes out on 15 September 2020,
while also interviewing the two younger authors.
George’s presentation was light, humorous and charismatic with funny and
entertaining readings
from the two books mentioned.
The books are both in the
same style and formatting with different colours, and both use the same modern,
young fictional character’s point of view:
“The Australia Survival Guide” to
describe
“How Australia is trying to kill you!”;
and the next book,
“The Human Body Survival Guide”
provides an interesting, humorous tour of medical quirks about the human body and things that could attack it, that may also be trying to kill you.
A Bit About George
&
What Makes Him Tick
George watches far
too much Dr Who, eats far too much chocolate, and drinks far too much coffee,
presumably due to their secret abilities in getting him out of writer’s block.
These must really work, because he is a popular Australian author of
“over one
hundred books for kids and teens.”
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| George During his School Days. Circa 1984 |
George cites his parents and grandma as
early supporters of his writing, saying, ‘you can be whatever you want to be’
and on reading his work, always said ‘Oh that’s lovely dear’.
While his wife
who reads everything before it goes to the editors, gives
“more honest
feedback”
and is able to tell him when something doesn’t work.
If you are
interested in writing
and wondering what the first thing to do about it is,
George said,
and wondering what the first thing to do about it is,
George said,
“Write!
That is what
makes you a writer.
Write!”
Meet Two Young Authors
by
Meet Young Author:
Petar, an accomplished 11-year-old boy from Slovenia, presented
his newly published book;
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for the Mentone
Public Library
Children’s (Early Bird) Book Week
Special Presentation
through Zoom
on the 15th
of August, 2020.
He had prepared an interesting video presentation about his writing journey, complete with graphics and effects. It was easy to follow and fun to watch.
As part of his presentation, he gave a well-spoken excerpt from
his book, which is a fictional version of a trip his family took to the Gold
Coast.
He came across as level-headed, enthusiastic, mature, friendly, with a good
sense of humour, and he was willing to answer any questions from the audience.
A Bit About Petar
&
What Makes Him Tick
Petar loves collecting books, reading and writing,
and
getting rid of litter so our oceans can stay clean.
He came over to Australia when he was 5, speaking no English, so school at first was quite difficult, but as he was
forced to learn it, he picked it up quite quickly.
Petar developed his passion
for writing at primary school with the encouragement of his teacher. He started
out writing short stories and then started novel writing.
His favourite part of
publishing is marketing...
...particularly online.
...and his least favourite part...
is the editing!
As he finds it frustrating and overwhelming.
His best piece of
advice for budding writers:
"Have fun with it!"
At the same presentation, Meesha,
an accomplished 15-year-old
girl from Melbourne,
presented her book,
Amazingly, she wrote this book
at the tender age of 6 years old!
A bright and
bubbly young lady,
she enthusiastically spoke about her reasons
for writing
this particular story.
She was proud of her work,
and quite happily answered
questions from the audience.
A Bit About Meesha
&
What Makes her Heart Tick
Meesha’s number one goal in life has been
to inspire people
to be the best they can be.
She believes that all dreams can come true
with
persistence and determination.
Meesha gets her own inspiration
from personal
experiences
and the people she comes across.
Her family have always been
supportive
in her passion for writing.
She admits there are challenges with
writing- such as writer’s block and the long rewriting/editing process -
but she
is keen to continue writing and publishing books.
She encourages everyone
with
the passion for writing
to just get started.
Her biggest secret?
Age does not
matter!
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