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May 31, 2011
Five Cool Things About Winter
Tomorrow is officially the first day of winter here in Australia, and I have a confession to make: I am NOT a winter person. Give me blistering sun any day of freezing cold – though my real favourite is hot enough to swim, mild enough not to HAVE to swim. Anyway, to me winter is cold and damp and miserable. But, in the spirit of my quest to put a positive spin on stuff, I thought I'd devote a
May 25, 2011
Five Cool Things About Housework
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May 24, 2011
Five Cool Things About Writing for Children
One of my students at my teaching dayjob asked me recently why I needed a day job if I am a 'real' author (as opposed, I guess, to being an unreal one). I explained that , like most authors, I need a day job to supplement my income. She was a bit puzzled by this, and went on to ask why I bother with writing if it doesn't make me enough money.
Although I answered her with several reasons, I've
Although I answered her with several reasons, I've
Puzzles and Stuff
Have just spent a fun half an hour doing virtual jigsaw puzzles of the covers of Toppling and Pearl Verses the World, after fellow shortlisted author, Chris Bongers pointed out that Mrs B has a great interactive website which has puzzles and other activities for shortlisted titles in the CBCA Childrens Book of the Year Awards for the past three years. How very cool.
The Toppling page has links
The Toppling page has links
May 22, 2011
Foreign Editions
My beloved brought home some mail from our other house on the weekend, and I was delighted that one of the packages contained author copies of Snowy's Christmas - in Korean. It's my first ever foreign language edition - though there have been UK and US versions of some of my books - so it was a novel expereince seeing my story in a form I can't actually read - in spite of looking almost the
