Last Wednesday–Launching new teen novel about aids survival–in style!

Dans op de zee has just been published in Dutch! What better way to launch a book about surfing, than to invite kids to read the story, then learn how to surf? But where to go surfing in Holland when it’s winter? Leave it to the Dutch: there’s an indoor wave-sport complex in Zoetermeer. And on 28 November classes from De Stromen school in Alphen, came to hear me talk and tell me what they thought of the story. . . .

Then they showed me their posters designed for the Promise Poster Contest. . . .

And then . . . THEY LEARNED HOW TO SURF!!!

For a description (in Dutch) and more great photos of this cool event, click here for the TEAR website.