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Emma Chinnery Virtual Author Event
February 10 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
About Emma Chinnery
Emma Chinnery is a British illustrator and writer living in Suffolk. She is the author-illustrator of children’s picture books My Friend Andy (Little Tiger) and We Grew a Dragon (Bloomsbury). She is the illustrator of Enchanted Beach written by Esther Freud (Walker Books). Emma graduated with a Distinction in MA Children’s Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art (2021).
Emma’s website: https://www.emmachinnery.com
Emma’s instagram (@emmachinneryillustration)
What to expect from the event
Join Emma for a fun event that will get your creative juices flowing!
– Find out about Emma and see the behind-the-scenes process of illustrating a book
– Learn about where stories come from and brainstorm your own ideas
– Emma will read the story
– Draw your very own dragon with Emma and fly away into your imagination!
– A chance to ask questions.
Focus Book
The session will focus on the book, We Grew a Dragon, (978-1526687449).
Buy the book
If you’d like to buy the book for your school before or after the event, we offer a substantial discount on the RRP price. Please email events@wherereadingrocks.com to order book. Orders received 7 days before the event will arrive in time for the event.
We can also offer this book at a discounted rate to families PLUS your school will also receive a 5% credit (based on the value of the books sold to families) towards any future book purchases made through Reading Rocks. To enquire about our family discounts email events@wherereadingrocks.com.
About the Book
Book title: We Grew A Dragon
Tom has an amazing secret – hidden under his bed is an egg. An egg that’s cracking, ready to hatch. An egg that contains . . . a dragon!
When Tina and her mum come to stay with Tom and his dad, Tina and Tom strike up an instant friendship. Tom shares his magical secret with Tina and soon the pair spend their days caring for their little dragon. They make her a bed from a shoebox lined with moss and leaves, feed her tasty morsels of sausages and pizza in special midnight feasts, climb trees together and give her lots and lots of cuddles. Soon she grows – and grows, and grows! And as they grow their dragon, Tina and Tom grow their own very special friendship too.
But then Tina’s mum decides it’s time for them to go back home. Tom and Tina’s friendship looks like it will have to come to an end.
Unless their dragon can keep them together. . .
Publisher: Bloomsbury
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