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A Right Royal Christmas
A Right Royal Christmas
A Right Royal Christmas is a new Christmas children’s book being launched on Sunday 1st November, at 2:00 pm, St Heliers Library!
It will be a fun event for all ages, with yummy festive nibbles, a fun puppet show, a reading by the author Lucy Davey and live drawings by the illustrator Donovan Bixley.
The story tells the tale of Princess Claire, who just wants to have a quiet Christmas with her parents, the King and Queen. But before she can say “fanciful feast” the palace is inundated with everyone from Lords to Knights, and even a dragon! She thinks, surely, there is no more room for anyone else?
A Right Royal Christmas, is a modern
twist on the nativity story.
Lucy is based at home,
Auckland’s eastern suburbs, with her three children,
writing children’s stories and music, and involved as the
Co-Director of a boutique advertising agency, Black. She
has a PhD in Chemical Engineering (UNSW, Sydney), and a
First Class Honours Degree in Biotechnology and Bioprocess
Engineering (Massey University, Palmerston North).
Lucy loves communicating with children, both through words, and through music and song. She ran a mainly music group for four years in Auckland, and loved connecting with the 30-40 children as they participated in the music sessions. Lucy has also been involved in teaching at a tertiary level, she has found that humour and enthusiasm are key ingredients to successful communication for both children and adults.
Lucy uses these principles in her writing, combining rhyming text and rich language, with carnivalesque humour, and layering themes so that her stories can be enjoyed at both a child and an adult level.
Fifi la Belle was Lucy’s first book. Set in Parnell, it follows pampered puss Fifi’s adventures on her way to the Auckland Museum. Fifi la Belle evolved into a series, with three titles. Lucy has enjoyed developing other characters as well, including a mischievous pukeko, Pandora, and the ever magnanimous Mr Mayor.
Lucy attributes her rhyming text to
her interest in music and especially in song writing. A
selection of eleven of Lucy’s children’s songs, have
been published by mainly music International Trust in 2007
and 2008.
Lucy loves to read, sing, garden and paint.
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