Posts Tagged ‘Australian children’s authors’
Dr Maurice Saxby AM: In Memoriam
Maurice Saxby, 26 December 1924—2 December 2014 I met Maurice Saxby the first time I attended a meeting of the NSW Branch of the Children’s Book Council. I was in my mid-20s, and I had not long since decided that I wanted to make children’s books my life’s work. I had met Ros Bastian, who…
Read MoreRemembering Nestlé Write Around Australia
I’ve had a lot of terrific jobs over the years, and one of the nicest was working on the Nestlé Write Around Australia creative writing program for kids. For those of you who don’t know it, it was a national program for kids in (equivalent of) Years 5 and 6, that involved sending authors to 50…
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