Children’s Book Week, Writers Fests, school visits. 2017 has been a big year of touring with two new books out, My Life and The Fall. Here are the best pics from my Instagram over the past few months, giving you a wrap on the adventures and a glimpse into the more interesting parts of life on the road.
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| Seeing kids excited about reading and creating their own stories is one of the biggest rewards of visiting schools. |
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| An assembly to acknowledge the work of young writers after a writer-in-residence stint at Brisbane’s ‘Churchie’. |
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| Late night Book Week dinner with authors James Phelan (The Last Thirteen) and Gus Gordon (My Life series, Somewhere Else) at an amazing hidden-away Thai place in Melbourne. |
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| Recording the Two Wolves audiobook has been one of the highlights of my travels. It’ll be out through Penguin Random House in coming months. |
Kids’ WB
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| And spending some quality time on an inflatable swan with Kids’ WB host Shane Crawford. (You can see the segment we shot here.) |
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| Launching The Fall. (Only just made it out alive.) |
Better Reading Kids Facebook Live
A quick behind-the-scenes chat about The Fall and our 2017 Room to Read World Change Challenge with Better Reading Kids, who are such great advocates for children’s literacy in Australia.
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| Filming Juiced TV at Brisbane’s Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital. It’s a show hosted by kids for kids. |
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| Nice having a new book to talk about and trying to bring it to life in interesting ways. I’m working on turning my talk into more of a ‘show’ next year and beyond. Ideas swirling. Stay tuned. |
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| My mum gave me a lovely present – the six metal staples I had inserted into my right knee from age 13-16 to slow down the growth of my leg. It’s the same operation that I gave to Sam in The Fall. |
Hanging With… Disney Channel
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| Fun hanging with Ash and Adam on Disney Channel’s Hanging With. This was just prior to a disgusting egg challenge. |
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| A box of old ideas found in the shed! And, yes, that is cockroach poo. |
ABC Me
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| Playing statues with Pip on ABC Me. |
Byron StoryBoard Bus
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| Visiting lots of small schools on Byron Writers Festival‘s amazing StoryBoard Bus. |
Children’s Book Week
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| And dinner with a pretty extraordinary bunch of creative humans. Author Morris Gleitzman, Penguin Random House editor Katrina Lehman and publicity maestros Kate Sheahan and Tina Gumnior, author / illustrator Gus Gordon, author Oliver Phommavanh and the lovely Isobelle Carmody. |
