spontaneous storytime – James Foley

Spontaneous Storytime at the State Library of NSW

Who’s up for another Spontaneous Storytime?

This one comes from a session at the State Library of NSW last weekend. I was joined by my author-illustrator bud Sean E Avery (creator of Frank’s Red Hat and Friendly Bee) who provided the live illustrations!

We had some fantastic ideas from the kids in the audience; check out the story below.

‘MEG WYNNE THE PIG-UIN’

Sunday October 26, 10:30am-11:30am

In which a half-pig, half-penguin called Meg Wynne – who spends most of her time diving underwater to catch cabbage fish – decides to chase her long-held dream of flying through the sky.

Spontaneous Storytimes at the Awesome Festival

I ran some improv storytelling sessions at the Awesome Arts Festival this week – where the kids came up with the ideas, and I illustrated them live! Huge thanks to all the amazing young storytellers who came along and offered up madcap characters, preposterous plot points and epic endings.

Session 1: ‘Luca the Heartbroken Toaster’

Wednesday October 1, 11:15am-12:15pm

In which Rosita, the sea star-girlfriend of Luca the Toaster is kidnapped by the evil Captain Bob, the intergalactic Butter Pirate. Captain Bob is called a Butter Pirate not because he steals butter, but because his body is a chunk of butter. Captain Bob flies off into space in his ship, the Blendar 1, with Rosita in a cage beside him.