A Year 9 pupil at Lækjarskóli publishes a book
A Year 9 pupil at Lækjarskóli, Smári Hannesson, recently published the book The Grandfather Who Does Gymnastics. This young and promising boy wrote the story when he was eleven years old, and the book is about Thomas who accompanies his grandfather to a gymnastics competition and has some fun adventures there.
Smári Hannesson publishes the book The Grandfather Who Does Gymnastics
A Year 9 pupil at Lækjarskóli, Smári Hannesson, recently published the book 'The Grandfather Who Does Gymnastics'. This young and promising boy wrote the story when he was eleven years old, and the book is about Thomas who accompanies his grandfather to a gymnastics competition and has some fun adventures there. Before the primary school Christmas holidays, Smári visited, among other places, the Lækjarskóli library and read from his novel for pupils in Years 5 to 7 to a very positive reception.
About the book…
The children's book The Grandad Who Does Gymnastics is by a young and aspiring writer from Hafnarfjörður, Smári Hannesson. He wrote the book when he was 11 years old, with the aim of writing an exciting book that he himself would have wanted to read at that age. Smári is a young author with an unbridled imagination, insatiable curiosity and a booming sense of humour, and allows the childlike world of the mind to flourish in the book's words and pictures. The book is about a boy named Thomas who accompanies his grandfather to a gymnastics competition in Australia and gets caught up in thrilling and perilous adventures. Children who have read the book give it good reviews, saying they can relate well to the young author's writing. As well as writing the story and illustrating it, Smári also publishes the book himself. The book is 74 pages of suspense and adventure and is aimed at children aged 5-12.