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I'm Sue Pickford Cheung, a multi-award winning author and illustrator of books for young people of all ages

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My week in China 🇨🇳 2 cities 4 schools 22

My week in China 🇨🇳

2 cities
4 schools
22 sessions
1500+ students (1 wildly off-topic question about ghosts - I saw 2 as a kid!)
lost count of books signed
2 books gifted to me by the students who wrote them 💝
1 student who saw me talk in Bristol!
1 powerbank confiscated at Shanghai airport due to incorrect wattage or something
1 best kitsch ever gashapon machine in hotel foyer
5 nights yoga in hotel room 💪
5 bao breakfasts (pinnacle of success)
Gazillion helps from Google translate
95% 🥳
5% 🤔
0 decent nights’ kip

Worth it though, because I got to do my empathy ambassador thing, plus ALWAYS quality story fodder to be had from riffing with people IRL. So thanks for all the invites lovely people! And now I must sleep…

#worldbookweek #chinaschools #authorlife #readingforempathy @empathylabuk @andersenpress @authorsabroad

The last show of the tour and the mother of all sc

The last show of the tour and the mother of all screens! Add a mike in my hand and suddenly I think I’m Ali Wong or summat (kid friendly obvs) 😂 Anyway, it’s a formula that works, the kids love it, and most importantly they’re taking it all in.

Thank you Dulwich School, Beijing, you were phenomenal🙌 especially reception year, which I don’t often have - they were a joy to perform to cos for me, it was like being a little kid myself again.

@empathylabuk #worldbookday #china #schooltour #smashedit

📚Happy World Book Day from Harrow School, Beiji

📚Happy World Book Day from Harrow School, Beijing! Two days there gone in a blink. Shame cos I’m just warming up on stage and got my stand up comedy down to a tee😂

Anyway, what fantastic students and staff, who gave me absolute VIP treatment. I hope I’ve left them with some good memories too.

@empathylabuk #worldbookday #readingforempathy #authorvisit #china #schooltrip

Wish I knew what these v. cute but massooove fox d

Wish I knew what these v. cute but massooove fox dog thingies are doing outside my hotel.

#Beijing #streetart

Possibly the biggest workshop space I’ve worked

Possibly the biggest workshop space I’ve worked in so far. No one’s going to miss that screen anyway!

Jet lag peak at this point, so thanking all the unbelievably lovely staff and students at German Embassy school for a great day - of doodling, readings and chats about how we should be treating each other.

@empathylabuk @authorsabroad @andersenpress #chinaschools #authortalks #readingforempathy

We’re in the library at Nord Anglia school, Shan

We’re in the library at Nord Anglia school, Shanghai. And I’m in the middle of a quick fire, ‘Guess the emotions’ round, to get the kids thinking about what people are feeling by their expressions.

Because EQ is loads more important than IQ, and we need more of that right now. So any way I can find to drum it in, I’m on it -(my tactic is humour 😂)

Thank you to the students and staff (most from North England, which was kind of surreal!) for the brill sessions.

@naispudong @authorsabroad @empathylab @andersenpress #china #schooltour #worldbookweek #empathyskills

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