Claire’s Blog
Historical Fiction Award Shortlist
Historical Fiction Award Shortlist Well, this is exciting! Haywire is on the shortlist for Book Links Queensland's inaugural historical fiction...
A Clean Desk
A Clean Desk  ... well, to be perfectly honest ... a clean-ER desk  ... but nowhere near as clean as this one. I've just submitted a picture book...
Treasure! – a reading
Treasure! A reading with almost real Pirates Pirates and octopuses, parrots, hats and boats. Families and more pirates. Today, I did a reading of...
Heroes of the Secret Underground
A review of Heroes of the Secret Underground Twelve-year-old Louie lives with her two brothers and their Hungarian grandparents in the Majestic...
Treasure! The beginnings…
Pirates! The beginnings.. About eight years ago, I wrote a picture book story based on an 'auto-correct' phrase. Not one I made, but one that...
The March of the Ants
The March of the Ants - Review There's not always time to stop and think about why I do what I do. I suspect it's the same for other book creators....
Iceberg: the story of a real, live, in-the-flesh book launch.
Iceberg - The real, live Book Launch Organising booklaunches can be tricky at the best of times. Whatever time or date chosen, there are going to be...
Footprints on the Moon
Footprints on the Moon - Review It's 1969 and Sharnie has just started highschool. She feels like her world is changing too fast and in directions...
Iceberg: From Idea to Book
Iceberg: From Idea to Book Picture books do not happen overnight. No books do. But man it's exciting when they finally do make it into the world....
Did you know?
Did you Know? I've been back working on my wip today and I desperately wanted to include 'swash', but no matter how many times I rework the lines,...
Haywire – a taster
Haywire - a Taster A little taster from my novel "Haywire" which was published mid-pandemic. Notice the lovely silver sticker? "Haywire" was...
Out and about
Out and About in Melbourne Melbourne and Victoria are slowly emerging from lockdown and it's a wonderful thing. We've been able to see family and...
What makes a scientist?
What makes a Scientist? This is wizardry, magic, wonderful. If you click on this link, you can read the first three chapters of Aussie Stem Stars:...
On the RRRadio …
On the RRRadio ... Georgia Ward-Fear and I have been chatting on the radio with Shane Huntington. Neither Georgia nor I could be there live, so we...
Kookaburra competition results are in!
Kookaburra competition results Thank you so much to everyone who entered our Kookaburra competition, for your imagination and skill. We were...
The countdown is on …
... only a few more days to get your Kookaburra entries in! We've had so many fabulous verses and pictures, it's going to be tough to choose winners...
From Facebook
My great niece wrote me a letter because her teacher wanted to send her parents a signed copy of Kookaburra. That letter led to a school visit yesterday to the delightful Harcourt Valley Primary School. Thanks for your letter Ada. Thanks for gifting Kookaburra to your parents Mrs H so they could read it to their visiting kookas. I love my job and the connections it makes. #kookaburra @tannyaharricksillustration @walkerbooksaus #naturestorybooks #childrensbooks #picturebooks #australia #australian animals
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