Author: sarahbrennanseriously

I'm the Hong Kong-based children's author of the Chinese Calendar Tales, the Dirty Stories, and Storm Whale. I tour internationally with my books and workshops for primary school aged kids. And I'm passionate about helping kids become literate, literary people in the digital age.

Today we need empathy for others more than ever…and we get it by reading books.

sarahbrennanseriously March 30, 2020

Photo credit: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2020/03/17/doctors-and-nurses-are-on-the-front-lines-of-the-war-against-covid-19-theyre-digging-in-for-a-long-fight.html It’s trite to say that these are troubled times. Every day the news brings more horror stories of the Covid-19 epidemic and the havoc it is reaping to people’s health, livelihood and lives. We are also …

An Ancient Warning to Wayward Young Women…

sarahbrennanseriously March 30, 2020

While cleaning out my study today, I found a poem I wrote a long time ago, and thought it needed an airing! I wrote it for an eccentric young man I was rather keen on at the time, who had …

Give them bread and circuses

sarahbrennanseriously October 29, 2018

Photo credit. So today we wake with the news that yet another far right politician has achieved success at the polls – Jair Bolsonaro, who has just won the presidential election in Brazil. He promises reform of the economy by …

What do the Tech Founders in Silicon Valley know that we don’t?

sarahbrennanseriously October 28, 2018

Photo credit. It’s long been known that the Waldorf Schools in Silicon Valley – which do not allow access to screens AT ALL in primary school, are stuffed with the children of tech founders and that Steve Jobs was a …