Karen Collum">Australian Children's Author

I just had to share these beautiful photos that Mrs Foy from Valley Intermediate School in Pelham, Alabama, sent me after my Skype visit. These are three of the classes of gorgeous kids I met via Skype. And not only are they gorgeous, polite and friendly kids, they asked the BEST questions ever.  Keep reading →

All dolled up :)

Recently I did an author visit to my nephew’s school. This doesn’t sound like a particularly unusual thing to do, except that in our case, I’m in Ballarat, Australia and my nephew, Zeb, lives in Alabama, USA. Thanks to Skype, I was able to do a school visit to the other side of the world from the comfort of my own office. Keep reading →

I spent Friday morning doing an author visit at Buninyong Primary School where I read Samuel’s Kisses to four separate classes of Preps. It was an extra special author visit for me as our eldest son started at Buninyong about six weeks ago and is loving his new school. I was delighted to have the opportunity to share my book with the littlies and I must say, all the kids were absolutely beautiful and so very well behaved. Author visits are fun and relatively easy compared to running workshops, but there are still a few things you can do to make your visit a success. Keep reading →