Thank you to Luther College for inviting me to teach the Year 7’s Chinese brush painting.
The students produced some beautiful work. I was very proud of them all! And what a wonderfully polite year level they were too!
Last week, my publisher Jane Godwin, Our Australian Girl series editor Davina Bell, my editor, Katie Evans and I travelled up to Wahgunyah to launch the final book in the series, Poppy Comes Home. Read the rest of this entry »
I first went to China in 1977 on a tour with a group of overseas Chinese. We were some of the first tourists to be allowed into China after the Gang of Four were arrested in 1976. Read the rest of this entry »
For the past 4 years I’ve had a rush of novel deadlines, first with Little Paradise, then with the four Poppy books. So how blissful it is now to relax in front of my drawing board, pick up a pencil or paintbrush and work on illustrations. Read the rest of this entry »
These amazing paper sculptures accompanied by poetry have been appearing around the Scottish city of Edinburgh.
Click on this link to read the article and see how truly beautiful these gifts are. Read the rest of this entry »
At the Ipswich Festival of Children’s Literature, the visiting authors were treated to a seminar about picture books and the ipad.
We saw how cute the Winnie the Pooh app was when apples could be shaken off the tree – little interactive tricks where children could play with the illustrations.
But we of the old school, came away shaking our heads. Read the rest of this entry »
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