I’m really looking forward to this day where I will be presenting with authors and illustrators such as Paul Collins, Meredith Costain, Susanne Gervay, Dianne Bates, Michael Panckridge, Phil Kettle and Michael Salmon.
Topics discussed will be:
Reading into the Future,
Issue Based Novels, Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
On Sunday I went down to Freshwater Creek, near Geelong, to take a look at my new puppy.
He is an English cocker spaniel and I’m going to call him Hero. 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 »
In this TED talk, Sunni Brown shows us how important doodling is to learning.
Part of being a children’s author is visiting schools to talk about books and writing. I’m an illustrator too, so for my primary school talks I have the students do an illustration with me. What if students were allowed to doodle all the way through school Read the rest of this entry »
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