Leaders across the world from politicians to pop stars have been bullied at school and are speaking out against it including -
Eminem
Lady Gaga
Tom Cruise
President Clinton
Kate Winslet.
Taylor Swift
Yeah to them.
Kids and communities are crossing the world with NO TO BULLYING.
(Thankyou Frane Lessac for the photos of the anti bullying bus in the USA.)
I’m madly working on my film script adapting my 3 JACK books into a script driven by NO to BULLYING.
I find it emotional that my son being bullied has lead to:-
the book “I Am Jack; Super Jack and Always Jack
adaptation into a play by Monkey Baa Theatre
translations into languages from Slovenian to Korean
USA release by Kane Miller Books
speaking across Australia & internationally
and has become part of that new consciousness across the world that:-
everyone has the right to be safe
no one has the right to target another person
power abuse is a crime both personally & globally
Reaching kids at school can change culture.
Room to Read, The Alannah and Madeline Foundation. Life Education Australia, Courage to Care – all say NO to School Bullying and endorse I Am Jack.
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I’ve spoken to 1000′s of kids and teachers and parents.
It’s been welcoming, inspiring and wonderful as I joke, play, engage with ‘I Am Jack’ and ultimately join together to work towards a safer world.
LOVE it all.
LOVE the Kane Miller Sales teams
LOVE Tabatha Roach, Lisa Gallo, Jennifer Thor.
Thankyou for driving me across Seattle to the mountains, through evergreens, hours hin so many directions to see a beautiful country and share my books and JACK.
PIGS DO FLY – I can feel the changes.
“* This hopeful, heartfelt novel will give teens an understanding of what it means to have a reason to be self-conscious. Librarians won’t be able to keep it on the shelf.” - School Library Journal (Starred Review)
‘Heart wrenching and beautiful are the two words that immediately came to mind as I read “Butterflies’ …
Gervay paints a picture of Katherine as she grows and changes allowing the reader to believe in her as a real person. Unlike other teen angst books, Katherine does not dwell in her angst, but moves beyond it and chooses to leave the misery and find joy in her daily life.
Gervay allows Katherine to win at the end- not because she suddenly becomes amazingly beautiful, but because she always was beautiful and knew that within herself.
…. Kudos to Gervay for painting the reader a picture of a self-reliant teen girl who does not depend on a boy to make herself feel valuable. Highly recommended for libraries- school, public and personal- who want to add to their girl power collections.” -
SWON Libraries Royal Reviews; http://www.swonlibraries.org/royal-reviews?a=dr&id=6255
Life is abuzz with the literary life.
Hazel Edwards was staying at The Hughenden and we caught up about the launch at the St Kilda Film Festival of ‘There’s a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake – it got a standing ovation!!!!!!
Hippo is also being shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival with Director Jaimie Snyder speaking there – go Hippo, go!!!!!!
Hazel was in Sydney to speak at Paul MacDonal’d Beecroft Bookshop – the place to go when you’re looking for kids’ books. I bought Margaret Wild & Ron Brooks ‘The Dream of the Thylacine’ autographed by both of them.
I see Margaret Wild in Sydney, but Ron lives in Hobart. So I now have my own autographed copy of this stunning picture book with its lament for the loss of the Tasmanian Tiger.
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Caught up with innovative publisher Sophia Whitfield who’s publishing the Aussie heroes series that includes Hazel Edwards’ ‘Sir Weary Dunlop’. It’s getting great reviews.
Kane Miller, my US publisher for ‘Butterflies’ is just back from the Book Expo in New York with warm & wonderful news about Butterflies. She said it’s going to ‘fly’ – Butterflies- fly. I like that. For anyone who hasn’t seen the trailer of Butterflies, love you to view it. I think it’s lovely:-
Butterflies, a novel Susanne Gervay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JP7BKgmQic
I find it emotional that my son being bullied has lead to:-
