New video from children’s author Rosemary Hayes, on writing historical fiction
Children’s author Rosemary Hayes has always been fascinated by Australian history. She also has a bit of a thing about shipwrecks! Two of her novels for young people, The Blue Eyed Aborigine and Forgotten Footprints, published by Troika, feature significant historical accidents at sea, both in Australian waters. Here, in a new video interview, Rosemary lets us into a few secrets...
Why is she so fascinated by shipwrecks? How did these two particular events shape Australian history? How does she go about researching the facts of real historical events? And what's the relationship between fact and fiction in her stories?
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Discover more about Rosemary on her website at www.rosemaryhayes.co.uk
The Mark
Rosemary has also made a video with the National Association for Primary Education where she works with a group of year 6 children in a primary school using her book The Mark as a teaching resource