Anzac resources

Anzac Resources Anzac Day is fast approaching and it’s going to look different this year, particularly for teachers and students. ‘Meet the Anzacs’ is a nonfiction narrative picture book about how Australia put together a first national army to fight...

Time travel

Today, I’m visiting Allison Tait’s Writing for Kids blog, talking about time travelling to the past. I talk about what it was like to research Haywire, a novel set in 1939 and 1940, and the things that helped me ‘inhabit’ another world. I...

APAD2019 Dandelion

Dandelion after the yellow bright petals wither powder fluff seeds wait for wind set seeds adrift adrift adrift float where the wind wills softly land begin again   More Poetry

APAD2019 Precision

Precision row after row petals open in prescribed sequence frills and flounces as ordered as any parade ground march   More