by Claire Saxby | Jun 2022 | Competition, New Release
It’s Tasmanian Devil Competition time! Attention students, parents, teachers, librarians! Clear your desk and sharpen your tools. We – Claire and Max – creators of the new Walker Books Nature Storybook, Tasmanian Devil, want to share our joy on...
by Claire Saxby | Sep 2021 | Nature, Science
The Eastern barred bandicoot is Back from the Brink Scientists, researchers and volunteers are preserving one of our smallest friends The People you Meet About 12 or 13 years ago, I worked on a local council election as an electoral worker, counting and recounting...
by Claire Saxby | Sep 2021 | Writing and Words
A New Page is a good thing? This is the scariest thing in a writer’s life. A blank page. Or is that just me? I have many a beautiful notebook that remains in pristine state, because I’m too scared to make a mark on a page. I’m much better with...
by Claire Saxby | Aug 2021 | Nature, Science
Great White Shark is in the… In the depths of a deep Melbourne winter, a book was released. Great White Shark (GWS), beautifully illustrated by debut illustrator but painter extraordinaire, Cindy Lane, and published by Walker Books Australia, is part of the...
by Claire Saxby | Nov 2020 | Blog, Events
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 have begun to see friends again too. On Tuesday, Sam from Wild Dingo Press and I visited bookshops –...