Literary lunchtimes

Last term Denise Tan, proprietor of Closetful of books, a local children's bookseller, contacted us with the offer of an author visit to our school. We weren't able to accommodate any more "grand visits" for whole year level groups in our curriculum, but our Primary Librarian and I thought it would be nice to have a short "meet the author" at lunchtime.
Our Central Library is very busy at lunchtimes, being a shared space catering for both Primary and Middle School, so we decided to host the event in the Senior Library.

Both the students and our visiting author Sheryl Gwyther loved the venue and informality of these visits. Our younger students were thrilled to be visiting the Senior Library.

I have held lunchtime sessions before, but not as stand alone sessions. I plan to have lots more of these next year. Denise was also thrilled with how well these went and is now keen to send all her visiting authors my way.