Sadly, we’re coming to the end of our hectic but fabulous Letters to Leonardo blog tour. We have been everywhere (well almost). Tomorrow, we’re off to the USA so it might take a bit longer for the post to appear due to the time difference. We’re going to be talking about bipolar themes in the story and [...]
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LETTERS TO LEONARDO BLOG TOUR FINAL DAY
Posted in BLOG TOUR, tagged BLOG TOUR, Dee White, Letters to Leonardo, mental illness on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
LETTERS TO LEONARDO BLOG TOUR DAY 12 – THEMES
Posted in BLOG TOUR, Classroom activities, Writing exercises on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Melissa from Walker Books has prepared some fabulous comprehensive teaching notes that you can download from www.walkerbooks.com.au – they cover all sorts of things to do with how Letters to Leonardo was written – and they mention some of the themes in the book: mental illness art family relationships emotional control Themes summarise a [...]
LETTERS TO LEONARDO BLOG TOUR COMING HERE TOMORROW
Posted in BLOG TOUR on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow, the Letters to Leonardo blog tour will be stopping here to talk about themes – and give some great class writing activities. . Hope you’ll join us. Dee and Matt:-)
LETTERS TO LEONARDO BLOG TOUR – CLASSROOM FUN
Posted in BLOG TOUR, tagged BLOG TOUR, Dee White, Letters to Leonardo, research on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, Matt and I visited http://thebookchook.blogspot.com to talk about how art has been used in Letters to Leonardo. While we were there, we told Susan about a great writing activity linked to the book. Drop in and see the bookchook and I’m sure she’ll be happy to share this information. Walker Books, our publisher has [...]
BLOG TOUR STARTS TOMORROW – LETTERS TO LEONARDO IN CYBERSPACE
Posted in BLOG TOUR, tagged BLOG TOUR, Dee White, Leonardo da Vinci, Letters to Leonardo, Young Adult fiction on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Word searches and classroom writing activities are just some of the fun things you can expect to find when you join Matt Hudson (the main character from Letters to Leonardo) and me (the author) on our Cyber Space tour. Make sure you join us tomorrow at http://sallymurphy.blogspot.com for the very start – so you don’t [...]