If you're ever considering having me visit your school to hold storytelling, animation and creative writing workshops, please refer to the following comments that I was recently from a fabulous librarian. The students filled in feedback forms which were handed back to staff, and this is a selection of their comments. Suffice to say I've been weeping, but they're tears of laughter. Is there a better testimonial than the below? If so, I haven't found it....
Enjoy!
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‘Curtis Jobling seems like quite a talented person and made
a good impression’
‘I think how he described his animation and shows was very interesting,
and is probably something that I want to try later in life.’
‘His books are really interesting if you are into that sort
of thing.’
‘The presentation / assembly could be classified as boring
but it had its’ moments, like when he showed short clips of a cow that wanted
to kill herself.’
‘Curtis is a quite short, with a waistcoat and short sleeved
shirt, he also has sideburns which are very long and dark trousers on. He had a small nose and a Pork Pie hat and he
as a faded beard.’
‘He was very funny and wasn’t boring as he kept you on your
toes when he changed the tone of his voice.
This is definitely a book I would like to read.’
‘I think it was really fun for a workshop’
‘I believe that the workshop was more interesting than the
talk because it was a bit more up close and personal.’
‘Overall, I enjoyed his visit and would like him to come
again if possible’
‘Overall it was a fun day and was very nice. My favourite part of the day was watching the
cow clips.
‘It was lovely to meet a famous author and producer and I hope I can meet him again. He has inspired me
a lot in writing.’
‘Curtis Jobling is an
author/ illustrator/animator who came into our school to not only persuade us
to purchase one of his books, but also to inspire us to write and animate
ourselves.’
‘He explained how he made the animations and we also watched
the Nickolodeon adverts which everyone found hysterical, despite the fact that
in truth they were really quite disturbing.’
‘His books seemed quite interesting and descriptive for the
people that are into that stuff.’
‘It was brilliant and I really enjoyed it.’
‘His book was good, I know because he read a bit to us and
it was very interesting.’
‘He had sideburns and a loud voice, which travelled round
the room.’
‘His jokes were quite funny and when he did the assembly it
was quite interactive, which was good.’
8 comments:
Lol quite a small nose. Bet you weren't expecting that to be one of the key take always from the class.
We thought the up close and personal comment was interesting!
this has nothing to do with anything that was just posted, but I wish to express my indignation at the fact that the uk editions of wereworld has illustrations (chapter heads, whatever), and the us ones don't. I cant even find them online, and I don't want to have to pay for all the books all over again. before it is suggested, my library has only us editions.
Great post...
Glad to read your post :). It is very informative!
Best feedback EVER! Particulary liked "He had sideburns and a loud voice, which travelled round the room."
Odysseus - I'm afraid that was the decision the US publisher, Penguin Viking, took. It's out of my hands. Personally I love a spot of chapterhead art in a book. That said, I do love the US jacket art, it's tremendous.
Mia79gbr - I know. They're on the money, aren't they? :-D
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