Things to do after reading Breathing Underwater
- Buy yourself a blue notebook (or any colour you like) and start making notes and drawings in it, of your own special places. Let yourself daydream and doodle. Pay attention to the small details of objects or places – the sounds and textures, smells and sights and tastes of the real physical world around you.
- Learn to swim! Or sail!
- Go beachcombing, like Freya and Izzy. Make jewellery with the pretty things you find.
- Write down some of your own feelings in your blue notebook. Pour them out on to the page.
- Invent a character who is like you but also different from you. Write about what she looks like, who her friends are, what she cares about, what scares her, what her memories are, what she really wants . . . Think about the place where she lives or visits. Use the notes for beginning a story . . .
- You can read more about Freya’s life in Bringing the Summer: she’s sixteen, now, and starting A levels at college . . . and she’s about to meet a boy, and a whole family, who will have a huge impact on her life
- You might also enjoy reading Drawing with Light: a love story, and a story about a girl’s search for her real mother.