Hello Hampton Junior School!
Myself and the monsters were very excited to be contacted
by the lovely teachers and children at Hampton Junior School. Year 3 have
been reading my picture book The Monster Machine published by Pavilion Children's Books and have really enjoyed it. Which is absolutely
fantastic to hear!
Their teacher Miss Devonport tells me they have been
inspired by The Monster Machine for a whole 3 week scheme of marvellously
monstrous work, including creative writing and collecting materials to build
their own monster machine! Wow!
Monster Emails
The children contacted myself and the monsters via our
special monster machine website, they had enjoyed reading the book
and had spent some time in class planning and writing some questions for us to
answer to learn more about monsters (and writing and illustrating books too.)
Now, myself and the monsters run the website by ourselves (we can't afford any
staff) so we were overwhelmed when we got a huge influx of lovely emails,
and had lots of fun replying. Hampton Junior School are an inquisitive bunch and
asked some wonderful questions like -
'Do the monster wear Jim Jams? What do the monsters eat? Do
I have any pets/children/a horse...' and of course wanted to know all about how
I got the idea for the book and why do I like monsters so much...
Building a Monster Machine
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| Class 3D with their Marvellous Monster Machine! |
Some of the children were very excited to tell me about
their plans in class to build a monster machine of their own! They had been
collecting materials over half term and were getting ready to construct... Working
together in small teams they did a wonderful job, and I was very excited to see
some photos of the finished machine!
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| The original monster machine itself... |
Monster creative writing
Reading The Monster Machine also inspired a lot of thinking,
and wondering what happens after the book is finished. Where do the monsters go? how do they feel and more importantly what does the monster's home
planet look like? Using their imaginations class 3D produced some wonderful pieces of creative writing
describing the monster's arrival on their home planet and what they imagine it
to look like... it is clear we are on the same wavelength :)
I was hugely impressed with their work and have been given permission to share a few examples with you here...
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| Monster Machine creative writing © Belle Roberts 2013 |
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| Monster Machine creative writing © Tilly Patterson-Dale 2013 |
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| Monster Machine creative writing © Katy Upton 2013 |
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| Monster Machine creative writing © Frederick Kelly 2013 |
I'm so pleased the children at Hampton Junior School enjoyed
reading my book and am truly thrilled it
has inspired such fantastic writing and monstrously, marvellous creative work.
A huge thank you to Classes 3D, 3M, 3B and Miss Devonport for getting
in touch and sharing it with me,
Keep reading, keep writing and stay creative! Keep up the excellent work!
Nicola (and the monsters)
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