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I’m Victoria’s inaugural Library ambassador
Victoria’s inaugural Public Libraries ambassador reporting for duty! It’s an absolute honour to share and celebrate the vital value of libraries for our state. On May 19th, 2025, the Minister for Local Government, Hon Nick Staikos MP, officially announced me as the...
Proud to be a Big Summer Read ambassador
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Amid the Sand Dunes officially launched for little readers
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Proud to be a Readings Books affiliate author
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Hannah Sommerville and Andrea Rowe together at Bendigo Writers Festival
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In the news, and up for chats
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Send your kids packing (to writers camp with me!)
If you've got children in your life who love to create stories, and are keen to explore creative processes, then I'd love to help them. Send them packing to Portsea Children's Camp in the September school holidays for two fun-filled days with like-minded new...
Hitch your reading wagon onto the Clunes Booktown Festival
There's a certain scent in the air when you approach Clunes each March ... it's the smell of books, beautiful books. And the sound? The air is filled with the soft riffle of pages, the gasps, laughs, and tissue sniffling as storytellers share, and the exclamation...
2023 Book of the year winners
A most special honour. Jetty Jumping has been awarded the 2023 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year (5-8yrs) for contributions to language & literacy development.That’s all Hannah Sommerville and I can ask for, that together we created a valued book that...
I’m a May Gibbs Fellow
It’s an honour to share that I have been awarded a 2024 May Gibbs Childrens Literature Trust Fellowship. The May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust promotes the creation of contemporary Australian children’s literature in the belief that children’s books, written and...
An author’s guide to surviving and thriving in Children’s Book Week
Children's Book Week is upon us! It's more than just costumes, it's a time of literacy connection, bringing books into a front row seat and inspiring young readers with writing, reading and author connections. In August every year authors and illustrators across...
2023 Children’s Book Week Costume inspo
On the countdown for 2023 Children's Book Week and stuck for ideas? Children's Book Week costume crisis? Roll this way my friends ... I have some wheelie good suggestions for my picture book Sunday Skating, illustrated by Hannah Sommerville. All you'll need...
Jetty Jumping shortlisted for Australian Speech Pathologist awards
Last week during the release of our new book, Sunday Skating, Hannah Sommerville and I were thrilled to learn that our previous book, Jetty Jumping, was shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia 20th Annual Book of the Year awards. For two decades, this...
Read and Roll Road Trip for Sunday Skating
I am rolling right along with the release of Sunday Skating roll and visiting bookstores and libraries, and even skate centres for story times and signings. While there's quite a hefty list of wheelie fun visits with bookstores (34 and counting!) ... there are also...
Celebrate our new book Sunday Skating. Colour and win!
As Sunday Skating rolls right out into bookstores today, join us in celebrating this special milestone. Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing, Hannah Sommerville and I invite you to colour and win super skate prizes. All you need to do is download the colouring sheet,...
National Simultaneous Story Time
Sloth selfies and storytime We were the fittest bunch of storytime readers at Rosebud library that you ever did see! Thanks to all who joined us for Australian Library and Information Association National Simultaneous Story Time at Mornington Peninsula...
When the writing’s on the wall
When your local bookstore asks you to write a few words …. And then they put it on their wall!!! Thank you to Sorrento's Antipodes Bookshop & Gallery for such an honour
Sunday Skating is all set to launch
Rolling out a new book Get your skates on and come join the Book Launch fun as we roll out our brand new picture book, Sunday Skating. Illustrator Extraordinaire Hannah Sommerville and I have teamed up once again, along with our publishing crew at Hardie Grant...
Tuning into story secrets as a podcast guest
Podcasts are a super way to learn about authors' writing style, motivations, and blockages, and to take inspiration for your own writing life as well. They're also a great way to share the news when there's a new book out and learn what to watch out for in the...
Cover Girl moment
Senior Mag cover girl - better late then never! I am currently contemplating my new career as a cover girl at 53! Thanks, Go55s for the lovely chat … I loved reflecting on the picture book writing journey so far. And much thanks to the wonderful Sarah Halfpenny for...
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