Literature Festival

I’m very much looking forward to this annual MARC Literature Festival, this year hosted by Marysville Primary School. MARC = Mobile Area Resource Centre = mobile library. This MARC service is now operated out of Merrijig and covers about 16 schools (don’t...
Update October 2019

Update October 2019

Update October 2019 Coming Soon (2020): Kookaburra, illustrated by Tannya Harricks, published Walker Books Australia Haywire, a novel Scholastic Treasure! illustrated by Tull Suwannakit published Scholastic Dingo is shortlisted for CBCA New Illustrator Award 2019...

Peaking

Bookweek is peak school-visit time for writers and illustrators and over recent years, the ‘week’ has (fortunately) extended to a much longer time. This year has been a doozy! It began for me in early August with Papua New Guinea, where Tina Clark and I...

A coupla pics

Thank you Robinsons Bookshop (Werribee) for supporting my visit to Tarneit Library. The wonderful Tarneit (Wyndham) Library. Thanks for such a warm welcome.  

From here to there

I am halfway through a schedule of four events in less than 7 days. Not that I’m thinking this is necessarily a heavy speaking load, but it is taking some planning. You might think I can use a single talk for all of them, but of course life isn’t like...