{"id":656,"date":"2013-10-23T10:20:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T21:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=656"},"modified":"2013-10-24T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T01:57:08","slug":"cup-magic-and-the-mines-afire-at-point-chevalier-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"Cup Magic and The Mine&#8217;s Afire!  at Point Chevalier School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday Students\u00a0 from three years 5 and 6 classes\u00a0at Auckland&#8217;s Point Chevalier School, listened attentively,\u00a0\u00a0and asked intelligent questions\u00a0\u00a0as author, Susan Battye, read them extracts from her books <em>Cup Magic<\/em> and <em>The Mine&#8217;s Afire!<\/em> (co-written with Thelma Eakin). \u00a0The presentation was part of a book fair hosted by Scholastic NZ at the school.<\/p>\n<p>School Librarian, \u00a0Denise Barrington,\u00a0commented that she had received\u00a0very positive feedback from the teachers concerned about Susan&#8217;s ability to engage the students.\u00a0 The teachers commented that they were particularly impressed with the way\u00a0Susan used a variety of accents and voices to make the extracts she read very easy to\u00a0listen to.<\/p>\n<p>The day finished with a book signing session in the school library.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dramamagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MNZS-Cup-Magic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-551\" title=\"MNZS Cup Magic\" src=\"http:\/\/dramamagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MNZS-Cup-Magic-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/dramamagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mines-afire_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-263\" title=\"mines afire_1\" src=\"http:\/\/dramamagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mines-afire_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday Students\u00a0 from three years 5 and 6 classes\u00a0at Auckland&#8217;s Point Chevalier School, listened attentively,\u00a0\u00a0and asked intelligent questions\u00a0\u00a0as author, Susan Battye, read them extracts from her books Cup Magic and The Mine&#8217;s Afire! (co-written with Thelma Eakin). \u00a0The presentation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=656\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[33,31,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}