Virginia Lowe
Virginia Lowe is an expert on reading to young children and on writing for them.
She kept a record of her own children's reading habits from birth through to early adolescence, and her PhD Thesis and subsequent book Stories, Pictures and Reality:Two Children Tell (Routledge), was based on this research.
Virginia has been a school and public librarian, lectured in children's literature, English and creative writing at university, and has been a judge for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards.
She is now proprietor of Create a Kids' Book , helping people to write and illustrate for children.
Virginia gives presentations on:
- reading to children (for parents & teachers)
- what the young child (birth - age 8) understands about the role of author and illustrator
- how to write a picture book
- her personal journey on how and why she kept a record of her children's book interactions (consisting of 6,000 hand-written pages covering their first 13 years). This became the book Stories, Pictures and Reality: Two Children Tell.
- Australian children's books in general
- writing memoirs
- identification of characters, their humour and emotions
- understanding illustrations
Several of these topics would be of interest to teachers (primary and kindergarten) and as professional development for writing groups. All are suitable for library presentations.
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