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We are thrilled to be getting Morris Gleitzman, one of the most famous contemporary Australian authors for children, for a whole day on Wednesday, September 19th. (He’s only in town for three days and AISS and Tanglin are getting him on the other two days.) Grades 4, 5, 6, and 7 (at least those students not away on school trips that week) will get to hear him speak.

Check out his website — there’s plenty there to explore, e.g., answers to his Most Asked Questions …

You teachers might appreciate these notes on his books, made available online by Puffin books:

• Morris Gleitzman: Fun in the Classroom [PDF] — covering 7 novels: The Other Facts of Life, Gift of the Gab, Adults Only, Toad Rage, Second Childhood, Bumface, and Toad Heaven
• Teachers’Notes on Deadly! [PDF] — the six-part story written by Morris Gleitzman and Paul Jennings
• Teachers’ Notes on Wicked! [HTML] — another six-part story written by Morris Gleitzman and Paul Jennings
• Teachers’ Notes on Doubting Thomas [PDF] — Gleitzman’s latest book (which we have on order and will be getting shortly)
• Teachers’ Notes on Boy Overboard [PDF] — re a Manchester United fan in Afghanistan who manages to escape the Taliban
• Teachers’ Notes on Girl Underground [PDF] — the companion novel to Boy Overboard
• Teachers’ Notes on Once [PDF] — Gleitzman’s take on the Holocaust
• Teachers’ Notes on Aristotle’s Nostril [PDF] — germ warfare takes on a new meaning
• Teachers’ Notes on Bumface – birth control and babies plague a young boy
• Teachers’ Notes on The Other Facts of Life [PDF]
• Teachers’ Notes on Teacher’s Pet [PDF]
• Teachers’ Notes on Worm Story [PDF]

Other teacher websites also provide resources to accompany his books, e.g.,

• Critical writing worksheet on Bumface — from the UK Teachit website
• Resources for Two Weeks with the Queen — from the UK Teachit website (the PDF versions can be downloaded)

NB: The Age newspaper in Australia recently discovered “Why Harry Potter Makes Morris Gleitzman Wince“.