Tag: Stellarphant

See you at the Sydney Writers Festival

Sydney, I’m coming back for the Writers Festival at the end of May!⁠

I’ve got four sessions, all FREE: ⁠

FRIDAY 26th⁠ MAY

SUNDAY 28th MAY (Family Day)⁠

  • 11am: Junior Fiction Spotlight
    (with Adrian Beck and Jasmin McGaughey)⁠
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  • 12:30pm: Storytime Clubhouse⁠
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  • 3pm: Illustrator Battle
    (with Heath McKenzie, Serena Geddes, Charmaine Ledden-Lewis and Adrian Beck)

Head to the Sydney Writers Festival website for more details.

I can’t wait!! See you there.

Three new interviews

Writers Weekend: Drawing on the Imagination
Seesaw Magazine
with Julie Hosking

I chat with Julie about the upcoming Perth Festival Family Day in Freo, a day of sessions with local and Australian authors and illustrators. I also talk about the creative processes behind some of my books.

Secret Agent Mole
reading With a Chance of Tacos podcast
with Ken Williams

Chatting with Ken is always a laugh! We talk about my new graphic novel series Secret Agent Mole – what it’s about, where the ideas came from, and where the series could go in the future.

Animals in Space
What the Duck?! podcast
with Dr Ann Jones

It was a real pleasure to be able to speak with Ann about the research I did for my picture book Stellarphant. I learned so many weird and wonderful stories about the true history of animals in space, and I got to share some of those tales on the podcast.

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
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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.

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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!!

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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!

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Free Stellarphant teacher resources

Teachers, I’ve got you covered!

There are a HEAP of freebies on the Stellarphant Teacher Resource page on my website.

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.

Stellarphant Teacher resources - click here
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