Extras

STUDY GUIDES

Interested in using some of Adrienne’s books in your classroom? Here are some free study guides for you and your students to use! 

The Explorers: The Door In The Alley – study guide 

The Explorers: The Reckless Rescue – study guide

The Explorers: The Quest for the Kidstudy guide

The Friday Society – study guide

 

FREE READERS ARE EXPLORERS POSTER!

THE EXPLORERS illustrator Matt Rockefeller and Adrienne have worked together to create this super cool Readers are Explorers poster complete with both Sebastian and Evie, and of course the pig in the teeny hat! 

Click the image to download or if you’d like a free signed poster for your school/library/bookstore, please email Adrienne at adriennekress @ gmail.com

 

 

THINGS THAT INSPIRE ME (so far)

ALEX AND THE IRONIC GENTLEMAN

Pirates of Penzance – Gilbert and Sullivan

An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump  – by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768

Lord of the Rings Movies – directed by Peter Jackson

Orient Express

Bath, UK

London, UK

This doorknob shop in Bath

Agatha Christie books

Roald Dahl books

The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

Peter Pan – JM Barrie

Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

Ginger my cat

My friends: Heather, Coriander the Conjuror, Fenelle the Scribe, O’Connell, Francesca, Tanaka, De Wit, Shakespeare,

 

TIMOTHY AND THE DRAGON’S GATE

Sir John Soane

Sir John Soane’s Museum

Macau, China

Brighton, UK

London, UK 

Boston, USA

Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter

Chow Yun-Fat

Sir Richard Branson

The pirate Ching Shih 

Chinese Dragon mythology

The game of Fan Tan

Black Cabs

The Paris sewer system

All my temp jobs working in office towers

The giant purple 16 wheeler that tailgated me on my way to Boston back in 2001

My friends – Emily, Sarah