by Claire Saxby | Apr 2026 | Blog, My Books, picture books, Types of Stories
Taking a Deep Dive Through the Darkening Sea began with a picture I spotted online, that showed a rainbow sea. The article it accompanied explained how the colour of marine animals changes with water depth at which they live. How could this be? I knew that...
by Claire Saxby | Mar 2026 | Blog, My Books, picture books, Types of Stories
Storm Rises When I wrote Iceberg, I had no thoughts of writing more books that would loosely fit an ‘elemental’ theme. But here we are – Storm is here. This book completes the four elements: water (Iceberg), earth (Tree), fire (Volcano) and air (Storm) explores...
by Claire Saxby | Feb 2026 | My Books, New Release, picture books
The Flower Garden In September 2013, I flew to Brisbane for the Queensland Art Gallery’s Exhibition, Quilts: 1700-1945. I wanted to see the Rajah quilt, a quilt I’d written about in My Name is Lizzie Flynn. I’d seen the Rajah quilt in Canberra in the Special...
by Claire Saxby | Jun 2025 | Children's Books, My Books
Book Writers and Illustrators at the School Library Conference I love conferences! Particularly bookish ones. Even ones that seem determined to flood the world with acronyms. How’s this? SCBWI (Aus East) presented two sessions at the National ASLA Conference that was...
by admin | Sep 2024 | Author Insights, Blog, Writing and Words
Revisions, Rejections, Redrafting of Manuscripts: A Rave I’ve been doing quite a few revisions lately. Some are redrafting, the natural progression of a manuscript and others are following submissions and are in response to editor feedback. There must be another...
by Claire Saxby | Mar 2024 | Blog, My Books
A Tree is Born Well, actually that’s not quite right, really. The book is ‘born’ ie released into the wild in early April 2024. The tree that is the subject of ‘Tree’ is about 350 years old. Our story is much younger than that. In September, 2022, Jess Racklyeft and I...