Naughty Dragons Make Trouble, a new omnibus edition of the first three Naughty Dragons books, Naughty Dragons Make Trouble! Naughty Dragons Try School! and Naughty Dragons Fire Up! has just been released by publisher Hardie Grant. This lovely new edition of my earlier novels about the adventures of Naughty Dragons Graun, Fafnine and their human …
Today the postman brought me four new bottles of ink from the Feline range just released by Tasmania’s Van Dieman’s Ink. I was on a self-imposed ink buying hiatus, but these looked so pretty I decided I would get a few just to see what they were like. The presentation is beautiful; the …
There’s no holding those naughty dragons back. Graun and Fafnine, together with their human friends, Ava and Jack, are off today on their fourth adventure, Naughty Dragons Camp Out! This time they’re heading to a school camp with a difference—in the crater of a volcano in the wild high country of the Laidley Hundreds, …
As many of you know, a work-related hobby of mine is collecting (and restoring) fountain pens. All my books start out longhand, using fountain pens and notebooks, and in future posts I plan to spend a bit of time explaining why I like to work this way. I am also hoping to write about some …
WRITTEN IN INK: Van Dieman’s Ink Birds of a Feather Read More »
Heredity is a strange thing. As a bookish little girl with a desperate desire to write, I grew up with a reputation for being the slightly eccentric one in our family. So you can imagine my surprise when I recently discovered that no—I am not the only writer in the family, not by a long …
I’m a great reader of old books, particularly old fiction. Something I have long wanted to do is use my blog to share books I think are unjustly forgotten, or titles I think need a reassessment. (There are so many books people think they know, but have never actually read, or know only by repute.) …
READiscoveries: The Lodger, by Marie Belloc Lowndes Read More »
One of my long term writing projects is a collaboration with my cousin, Robyn Collins, who was formerly State Librarian of both Tasmania and South Australia. (She was also once, back in the far-off days when I worked in public libraries, my boss at Logan City Libraries.) Robyn and I are part of the Ballinlass …
Lots of news about the Naughty Dragons! The next installment in the series, Naughty Dragons Go to Camp, has now been edited, and will be illustrated by Simon Howe for a 2023 publication date. In this story Graun and Fafnine attend Dragon Camp at a volcano in the High Country with their human friends, Ava …
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Wandering Star, one of my all time favourite texts, is now available as a video for subscribers of Story Box Library. The story is read by teacher-librarian Michelle Nye (pictured above), from Hillcrest Christian College, which I have discovered has its own stable of horses. I clearly should have sent my daughter Elizabeth, to this school: …
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Anyone who has ever read my Lily Quench books knows that I have a thing for dragons, right down to having a dragon gargoyle on my roof. So it’s not too surprising that I should return to the subject for my new junior fiction series, Naughty Dragons, out this month from Hardie Grant Egmont. Unlike the fantasy world of …
