Stories straight from the source

The Sunshine Beach State School Prep Transition program recently welcomed Queensland author and illustrator Shannon Horsfall to one of its free author events.
Shannon read Prep and pre-Prep students her books ‘Was Not Me!’ and ‘Nomax’, published by Harper Collins Australia.
Shannon drew on her background in graphic design and children’s fashion for her illustrations and demonstrated the skills of drawing people and animals with emotions to the children.
The children called out the emotions that they wanted to see drawn, such as happy, sad, grumpy, angry and tired.
Shannon shared her secret on how to become good writers and readers – the message was simple – read books every day.
The Prep Transition program plans to run an author event each term with the next event scheduled for October.
Prep transition officer Tara Bruin said “if there was just one thing we could do for our children in order to prepare them for formal schooling, it would be to surround them with stories, reading and literature each and every day”.