Interviews with the creators of Tashi and Selby the Talking Dog from Magpies Magazine, Vol. 18 No. 5, November 2003 This article from Magpies Magazine features two of Australia’s most popular series fiction for children from the 1990s: Tashi, written by Barbara Fienberg and Anna Fienberg, illustrated by Kim Gamble, and Selby the Talking Dog…

Late in 2003, I interviewed Geraldine McCaughrean via email. The interview was done for Good Reading magazine. I sent Ms McCaughrean a series of questions, to which she responded in one long email, so what you will read below is, first of all, my questions, and then her response. __________________ Questions for Geraldine McCaughrean I’ve…

Sydney, October 2003 Lauren Child was in Australia for a publicity tour and the bi-annual Children’s Book Council of Australia conference. I interviewed her in her hotel room overlooking Sydney’s Botanical Gardens. The interview was published in Good Reading Magazine in January 2004. This is the full transcript of our conversation. _________________________ I first came…