Our Pre-Primary and Year 1 students at our Halls Head Campus enjoyed author and illustrator, Gabriel Evans, visiting them recently!
Students listened to Gabriel talk about the effort and time he has to keep putting into all his books, drafts and drawings, and showed the students the sketchbook that he takes everywhere.
Gabriel then had students describe an animal wearing clothes, and holding items they would take on holidays with them, before having the students draw the same animal they just described!
Students asked so many questions, and thoroughly enjoyed Gabriel reading his newest book to them (only released a month ago!) - Listen, Hippo!
Thank you for visiting us, Gabriel! Thank you also to Cathy Puzey, from Mandurah Public Libraries, who facilitated his visits to local primary schools as a part of 'Love to Read Local Week’.
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Gabriel Evans is a Western Australian children's book author and illustrator. Working primarily in watercolour and pencil, he creates books from a small studio on a big hill. Gabriel's books are published internationally in more than twelve countries, have been reviewed in The New York Times, translated into ten languages and read on ABC-TV's Play School. Blue Flower by Sonya Hartnett, his first picture book with Penguin Random House, was shortlisted for the CBCA Picture Book of the Year in 2022. His second picture book with Penguin, A Friend for George, was published in 2023, followed by Listen, Hippo! released in 2024.