Blog - Claire Saxby-Children's Author

Time travel

by Claire Saxby | Apr 2020 | Blog, Uncategorized

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...

The Anzac Billy: Post-book-release research (or … Should I have known this earlier?)

by admin | Apr 2019 | Blog, My Books

The Anzac Billy – post-book-release research I visited the Alexandra Club on Wednesday and spent a wonderful hour there learning more about the club’s involvement in the sending of billies to Gallipoli in 1915. It seems the club had already begun planning...

The Anzac Billy and more …

by admin | Apr 2019 | Blog, My Books, New Release

The Anzac Billy and more I missed April 1 this year. It sailed right on by with nary a peep … Not that I celebrate it particularly, but I just didn’t notice it, nor connect the day with the date at all. Happy Launch Day to The Anzac Billy! Officially...

Coming Soon – The Anzac Billy

by admin | Feb 2019 | Blog, Children's Books

Coming Soon – The Anzac Billy The first copy of The Anzac Billy arrived in my letterbox last week. And it’s so beautiful. The artwork by Mark Jackson and Heather Potter is full of detail and delight. It’s been a while coming, this book but it’s...

Books in Homes

by Claire Saxby | Aug 2015 | Blog, Events

Books in Homes – storytelling and presentations A few weeks ago, I was at an inner Melbourne school presenting books as part of the Books in Homes program. The program gives books to children who may have few books in their own homes. But first there was time to...

Airey’s Inlet and Seadog’s first outing

by admin | Apr 2013 | Blog, Children's Books

Airey’s Inlet Lighthouse … the inlet … What a lovely display! This is the front window of Great Escape Books in Airey’s Inlet, where Seadog experienced a ‘coastal launch’. ‘Home’ to organiser extraordinaire Nicole, and...