To celebrate the launch of Little Bilby’s Aussie Easter Egg Hunt, published by Lothian Children’s Books and illustrated by Jody Pratt,  I will be giving away three free author sessions to early childhood centres and kindergartens in the Brisbane and Logan areas. All you need to do is enter the rafflecopter at the end of […]

Announcing the due date of another book baby, published by Hachette! Pre-order here! Near bush and scrub and oceanfront, they tip toe on their treasure hunt . . .A group of baby bilbies are on an Easter egg hunt. They find all kinds of eggs – a kookaburra’s egg, a turtle’s egg, a cassowary’s egg […]

Making new connections With SCBWI AU/NZ head honcho Susanne Gervay Hooray for conferences, hooray for making new connections, hooray for cementing old ones and for getting creative with the creatives! Being at a SCBWI conference is like cramming months of excitement, information and geeky book stuff into a couple of days. This was my third SCBWI Sydney […]

 A surreal fairy tale is what it felt like to see my story ‘A Starry Christmas’ launched this Friday night. The story goes for 7 minutes and is animated and displayed via a spectacular light show on City Hall, King George Square, Brisbane. The story is displayed every 15 minutes from 7.30pm to midnight every […]

Get ready for the Brisbane City Hall Animated Story, written by ‘moi’ and animated by Electric Canvas! Check out their amazing work! Come along to Brisbane’s King George Square on the 8th of December at 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start for the launch of this event and a story with a quest to save Christmas! […]

I had the opportunity over the last few weeks to work with the amazing Jenny Stubbs and the Ipswich District Teacher Librarian Network as assistant to Jenny in organising the StoryArts Festival Ipswich. The StoryArts Festival Ipswich began in 1995 as the Ipswich Festival of Children’s Literature and has been held every two years since […]

Jenny Stubbs and Libby Gleeson Last week I attended two amazing events, the first, the Narelle Oliver Lecture of Children’s Literature,  by Libby Gleeson. And the second a symposium on children’s literature centres in Australia. Book Links, an amazing organisation, with at its head, Jenny Stubbs, organised both these events. Book Links’ aim is to […]

Patreon is a simple way for you to contribute to my goal of becoming a self-supporting author and illustrator and for you to receive great rewards in return! Find out more at www.Patreon.com/Yvonne Example of exclusive content and award. Here is some of what you can expect, from my Patreon page: Here I am. Looking […]

My mother passed away from the complications of breast cancer in August last year. I am so thankful that I had the chance to stay with her and my father for a few weeks in Amsterdam last year, to talk, to reminisce and listen to their memories.  Less than two weeks after I arrived back […]

Yvonne Mes reading Meet Sidney Nolan. Photo by Ozan Tortop   They were proud moments, my first picture book Meet Sidney Nolan, illustrated by Sandra Eterovic and part of the wonderful series by Random House Australia, was launched at the Story Arts Festival Ipswich last month and at the Mad Hatters Books shop this month. […]