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Today I spent a lovely day visiting Sydney Grammar’s Preparatory School and it was all about the pirates! Louie the Pirate Chef was out in force, and the students loved to hear about what foods Louie was cooking up. Thank you to the teachers who helped organize the visit- it was a lot of fun! If you

You may remember my attempts at hand sewing a while back with my hand-sewn chook. WELL for my birthday this year I was lucky to be given a brand spanking new sewing machine! Huzzah! Since then, there has been no looking back and I am slowly learning what is what, experimenting with different fabrics and

  Happy Wattle Day everyone! Get outside today in the sunshine and go hug a wattle tree!

Remember a few months ago I participated in One Word One Day in Sydney’s ABC foyer? Run by the ASA to raise money for The Indigenous Literacy Foundation, illustrators and artists painted beautiful artworks. The word of the day for the Sydney contigent was TEETER, so we had to paint something that related to the

Concepts time! When putting concepts together for a new book, I usually try and scribble down as many ideas as I can. I want to explore the world as much as possible to see what the limitations are. For this book however, I knew pretty early on roughly what Molly and her mum were going to

  A quick shout out and big thank to The Little Bookroom for getting behind The Wattle Tree! If you haven’t visited The Little Bookroom before and LOVE LOVE LOVE children’s literature- YOU MUST. I am using a lot of capital letters here, because the two Melbourne stores a very well stocked in good quality

Last Thursday night Shearer’s Bookstore held Sydney’s book launch for The Wattle Tree. It was a fantastic night of eating scones, drinking champagne and (if you were me) being wonderfully nervous. It was very the first time both author John Bell and I were to see The Wattle Tree in action, but it was received very well!

This Saturday 25th August I will be appearing at Blacktown sports park for Sportsfest Champions Read! festival. The day will be full of sports and literature events all mixing together for a fun time, because having a healthy mind is just as important as a healthy body! There will be sporting events, games, craft activites, author presentations and