Creature Name & Genus: Dave, the Deep Space Angler Home: Space Personality: Alluring Kidlit Creature Week is an illustrator collaboration displaying an online gallery of monsters, creatures & other imaginary beasts suitable for children’s literature. For a bit of fun I sent in this mischievous creature. He may look alluring, but watch out when […]
Illustration Success and Shop Launch
Bookmark selected for International Book Giving Day 2015 Though I spent much of 2014 reading and writing reviews, finished many picture book drafts, got back into my junior fiction novel, and wrote short stories and poems for children, I did manage to create some time here and there for a few illustrations leading me to […]
The (totally subjective) Picture Book Buying Guide for Grown-ups
These are NOT for children, I repeat, NOT for children. But they ARE picture books! These are parodies, have adult topics and humour, are rather dark and some have blood and gore but all will be appreciated by adults, well those with a slightly skewed way of looking at the world and a weakness for […]
My (totally subjective) Best Picture Book Buying Guide Before Christmas 2014
This post can also be known as: ‘Books My Two And Four Year Old Boys Loved This Year’, or ‘What Books To Buy The Little People In Your Life’. Last year I posted my first Totally Subjective Best Picture Book Buying Guide Before Christmas after a conversation I had with my friends on what books […]
Celebrating … my first picture book contract!
I signed my first picture book contract with Random House Australia! Meet Sidney Nolan is scheduled for publication in October, 2015. It will be part of the fabulous Meet … series at Random House. Titles out this year are: Meet Captain Cook (which was shortlisted for the CBCA Eve Pownall Award for Information Books)Meet The […]
Illustrator Benjamin Johnston talks about illustration, dreams, reality and Engibear
Benjamin Johnston I met Benjamin Johnston this year at the Sydney SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) Conference and at the Queensland launch for Engibear’s Bridge in Brisbane during the QLD Children’s Book Council Australia Book Dinner. I’d looked forward to meeting Ben ever since I had read Engibear’s Dream (written by Andrew […]
Children’s Book Council Australia Queensland Book Week Dinner 2014
Children’s Book Week is in full swing across Australia. from 16 to 22 August. The day before Children’s Book Week, the winners of the Book of the Year Awards 2014 were announced.The CBCA Book of the Year Awards have been going since 1946 and have been celebrating Australian Children’s Books since then.The winners: Older Readers:Wildlife […]
Once a Creepy Crocodile – review
‘Once a Creepy Crocodile’Written by Peter TaylorIllustrated by Nina Rycroft and includes a sing-along CD by Rusty BertherPublished by The Five Mile PressRelease date 1st July 2014 Dear Know-It-Al- Nanny,I have a two-year-old who insists on hearing the same story and the same song over and over again. He demands ‘Cweepy Cwocodile’ at every waking […]
Brisbane CYA and Sydney SCBWI Conferences 2014
Brisbane Write Links members at the Sydney SCBWI conference 2014 From left: Tanya Hempson, Rachelle Sadler, Tracey Lennon, Rebecca Sheraton, Betty Collarson, Pamela Rushby, Yvonne Mes, Sheryl Gwyther, Peter Taylor and Jacque Duffy. Over the last few weeks I have been enveloped in a whirlwind of writing related activities. I had worked hard towards these […]
My Short Story on the Front Page of ‘Blast Off’
Artwork by Vivienne To Here is a short post to share my excitement with you.Blast Off, Issue 7, by the lovely people at The School Magazine, will be going out to readers in July. My short story, My Sister Ate My Science Project, can be found on page seven. In itself that is pretty exciting […]