Children’s Week with Freda Chiu

In this online session, author and illustrator Freda Chiu will give a behind-the-scenes glimpse of illustrating a picture book, before asking students to get their best cheering voices on for a live reading. This will be followed by a guided drawing session where students will create their own drawings.

What you will need: A4 paper and a pencil per student

Target audience: Kindergarten – Year 2 (children aged 5 - 8).

Freda Chiu is an award-winning children’s illustrator and author. Her books have been published locally and internationally by publishers including Penguin Books UK, Walker Books, Hardie Grant and Allen & Unwin. As well as children’s books, Freda’s work spans commercial illustration, public artwork and editorial illustration. Her books have been nominated for numerous awards including the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards, Australian Book Design Awards and the IBBY Australia Ena Noël Award. Freda also lectures in illustration and animation design at the University of Technology Sydney, where she is passionate about educating and encouraging aspiring illustrators.  

This session will take place online via a Zoom webinar. You will receive the link to join upon registration. Please register.

This session, artworks, film and sound clips are protected by copyright and may not be recorded, reproduced or used in any way without the express written consent of the State Library of NSW.