Claire’s Blog

Look closely and you'll notice that only a few of the pylons actually reach the water. Virtual support.Seal Bay on Kangaroo Island, where sealions...

At the end of a day's writing and illustrating with students from Buxton, Strathbogie, Jamieson and Merrijig, brought together by their teachers and...

Setting the scene - time-wise and language-wise Preparing tools to createHard at work, producing some stunning images of WWI Silence.

This is the fancy end of the Endeavour replica. Unfortunately it's impossible to stand tall here, as the clearance is only for small people. No...

Man, LIFE is busy! Good busy though. Two manuscripts submitted, another almost ready to go. And then there's the 'after' of busy. When the motor has...

How's this for capturing the moment?

Another highlight of the SCBWI Conference this year was receiving the 2011 Crystal Kite Award for There Was an Old Sailor. I'd known about the...

The barque James Craig. Research for a project. The volunteer aboard couldn't have been more helpful, although even he eventually abandoned us to...

I started the new financial year at a run. Actually I started a couple of days early, but who's counting? First there was the SCBWI conference in...

Last week I went to St Brendan's School to read There Was an Old Sailor as a preface to presenting bags of books to Grade 1 & 2 students. It was...

Sunday was the Melbourne launch of The Little Dinosaur, written by Catriona Hoy, illustrated by Andrew Plant, published by Working Title Press. This...

This gum and blossom was in the main street of Rainbow. The leaves are more than 30 cm long and the gum nut is about the size of a 50 cent...

One day, I'm going to have a house with a view of the ocean. One day.Any guesses on what this is?