High Road To Reading

On Tuesday 21^st May, Lyn McNally and myself took thirty students from Years 8 and 9 to hear local author Scot Gardner speak at the State Library’s “High Road To Reading “ event. This was held  at the Wellington Shire Library. They laughed their way through Scot’s quietly delivered talk, entranced by his many tales of where he gets his inspiration for his storytelling. Scot writes for young adults and children and has a great ability to see through the eyes of adolescents. Scot is a very gifted writer and his books include Burning Eddy, One Dead Seagull, The Legend of Kevin the Plumber, White Ute Dreaming, Gravity, The Other Madonna, The Detachable Boy, Happy As Larry, One Wheel Ride and The Dead I Know. In 2012, Scot won the Children’s Book Council of Australia prize for older readers with his novel “The Dead I Know” which has recently been released in Canada.
Some of you might remember Scot from the days when we ran the Year 9 Wellington Writer's Gig.He recently trained as a teacher and up until the end of last year he was teaching at Kurnai College in Churchill. He has  now made the decision to stick to writing fulltime!