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Highly classified footage leaked to public

This footage is top secret.

It reveals details of an unreleased mission report that isn’t available to the public until March 1st.

If you do not have security clearance to view this footage, please disregard this message.

Pre-order my ‘top secret’ new book!

SECRET AGENT MOLE is my brand new graphic-novel series with Scholastic Australia!
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‘Book 1: Goldfish-Finger’ is out on March 1st. ⁠

Here’s the blurb:

Max is a mole on a mission.

With Helen Hippo and June Bug by his side, Max must stop the evil Goldfish-Finger from stealing a priceless, solid gold fish-finger. This dangerous, top-secret mission will involve explosions, a naked mole rat, and being flushed down a giant toilet. Will Max and the team defeat the fiendish fish?

Time to rock and mole!

⁠This amazing cover comes courtesy of the genius that is Hannah Janzen. She took my sketch and made it so much better than I thought it could be. Thanks heaps, Hannah!⁠
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You can pre-order Secret Agent Mole, Book 1 from all the usual places – or click the links below.

🌏 *SIGNED COPIES* – PAPER BIRD

🇦🇺 🇳🇿 LOCAL INDIE BOOKSHOPS

Casa Del Libro (Catalan)

Buy Stellarphant limited-edition prints

If you’ve ever wanted to own some of the artwork from Stellarphant, now you can!

I’ve had some of my favourite pages made into limited-edition prints.

Each one is signed and numbered, and printed on archival quality paper. The colours are excellent – I’m so happy with how they turned out!

You can buy the prints from Paper Bird Books and The Literature Centre, both in Fremantle, WA.

buy from Paper Bird Books

buy from The Lit Centre

Stellarphant on the 2022 White Ravens List

This is completely unexpected and wonderful news!

The White Ravens List is a prestigious international children’s book honour given to a select number of books each year.

From the official website:

Throughout each year, the language specialists at the International Youth Library select recently published books that they consider especially noteworthy. This >>premium label<< is given to books of international interest that deserve a wider reception on account of their universal theme and/or their exceptional and often innovative artistic and literary style and design.

This year, the >>White Ravens<< contain a selection of 200 notable children’s and young adult books from 53 countries published in 37 languages.

Stellarphant makes the Better Reading Kids Top 50

Brilliant news: Stellarphant has come in at #36 in the Better Reading Top 50 Kids Books!

Every year, Australians have their say about their favourite children’s books in the Better Reading Top 50 Kids . The list always features a mix of classics, picture books, middle-grade and YA.

This is the first year I’ve ever had a book on the list, and I couldn’t be more surprised and chuffed! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who voted for Stellarphant!!

Events for Sept/Oct 2022

Spring has sprung, and so have the writers festivals!

The next two months are absolutely chock-a-block with fantastic festival events.

There’s an online workshop for the Brisbane Writer’s Festival, plus in-person events with the Quantum Words Festival, the Scribblers Festival, the Awesome Festival, the Melville Storylines Festival and the Lit Centre’s Celebrate Reading Conference (which may as well be a festival).

I even have an exhibition coming up all about Animals in Space.

Full details below!

There are teaching notes available, as well as free videos, craft activities, a word search, a spot the difference, and colouring sheets – all bound to keep your students busy.

Head to my website to download the resources now.