Author Visit May 2001.

Countdown by Michaela & Niamh 

It is only two weeks away and Marita Conlon Mc Kenna is coming to our school. We are all very excited and we cannot wait until she arrives. We all have lots of questions to ask her about her books and maybe she can give us some answers.

A week and six days has passed and we only have to wait for one more day and I don't think we can wait much longer. 

Today is the day Marita is coming and in one hour and five minutes we will be going to the halla to see her and maybe I will get Marita's  autograph. 

It is time now to go to the halla .We are very excited. We are right in the front of the room and we can see her perfectly. She is very nice.

Marita Conlon Mc Kenna tells us about her child-hood and her children. Marita told us that when she was a child she lived in Dublin. When Marita lived in Dublin the people in her class were  unkind  to her they called her bookworm which was not nice but she said she did not mind at all. When she went down to Greystones  she was in a gang called the Dock gang and her nickname was Clamity Jane. 

When Marita lived in Greystones as a child she and her sister had a neighbour that they never saw. She would be wondering if she should go in and ask if she wanted anything from the shop because she always wondered how the old lady  got food or clothes or anything She was always too  frightened to go in. When Marita got older she wrote a book called in the Deep Dark Woods remembering her neighbour. She told us her next book is going to be for adults and she has another children's one on its way. She asked us what would she call it .She said someone told her to call it Orphan Street and he wanted to know what ewe thought of that.

Her dad never read a book in his life. She had four children and one of them had dyslexia . Her girls  names are Amanda and Laura. Marita  told us a lot of things and when she was finished we  got her autograph. Teacher took a photograph of us with Marita.

She was very nice and I hope she will come again because I really really liked her.

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