Category Archives: Night Garden

Awrooooo!

By elise | Published: September 27, 2012

Oh I wish I’d taken some photos yesterday at the show! The performance of The Night Garden and Peter & the Wolf at the Melbourne Recital Centre was so great. It was a full house of kids and parents who were all astoundingly unwriggly! What can I say? I was SO proud and happy with [...]

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The Night Garden & Peter and the Wolf

By elise | Published: August 1, 2012

Well here’s a gorgeous double. You might remember that last year my book “The Night Garden” was set to music and animated by the Melbourne Recital Centre. Well, they are bringing it to life again and this time they are teaming it with the classic “Peter and the Wolf”. I remember lying on the couch [...]

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Mini night garden

By elise | Published: February 23, 2012

Oh look what came in the post today! A whole new edition of the Night Garden… In MINIATURE. It’s so cute! I don’t know about you but I love little books – the littler the better. I wonder just how small they could get this one? Palm-sized would be cool x e

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The show

By elise | Published: September 27, 2011

Yesterday was such a thrill! I had never been inside the Melbourne Recital Centre before. We arrived early with the boys and went to a backstage rehearsal room to feed them. It was fun to be back of house again – I’ve seen a few different spaces over the years through work and I love [...]

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Big day for Sally & Strange

By elise | Published: September 25, 2011

Tomorrow is the big day for the performance of “The Night Garden” and “The Rainbirds” at the Melbourne Recital Centre! I can’t wait! It’s the beginning of the school holidays so if you’re looking for something to do we’d love to see you. There will be beautiful orchestral music, animation and Sally Rippin, illustrator of [...]

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Making sweet music with the Night Garden

By elise | Published: July 28, 2011

Here’s something very exciting coming up! I have been working with the talented people at the Melbourne Recital Centre who are putting together a beautiful program for the next school holidays. They are putting two picture books to music – my book “The Night Garden” and “The Rainbirds” by David Metzenthen and illustrated by Sally [...]

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Drawings!

By elise | Published: May 22, 2011

Here are some fantastic drawings sent to me from a little school in Australia by some very talented kids!! Thanks so much for sending them in! If you know someone who would like to have a go at drawing their own Night Garden – you can download them here . They print out at A4 [...]

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And the winners are…

By elise | Published: December 13, 2010

In the last fortnight we had a little give-away-comp happening at my online shop and here are the lucky three winners. Huzzah! The Hot Chocolate print – L. Fanning, Queensland A limited edition print from The Night Garden  – E. Long, Victoria Bad Tidings print – V. Bell, Victoria It was a pretty awesome response [...]

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It’s a count-down… give-aways on Sunday!

By elise | Published: December 10, 2010

This Sunday is the day when we are going to randomly draw the three winners of my give-away prints! To be in the running visit my little online shop and create an account by midnight Saturday 11th December. (No need to buy anything.) Oh and the goodies are… The Hot Chocolate print (valued at $85), [...]

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Night Garden – introducing felicity

By elise | Published: December 8, 2010

I have to tell you about a lovely new site that is providing children and families with fun things to do and share every day this December. It’s called Felicity from Thin Air and you can learn all about it here. It’s all about sharing creative ideas – there are crafty activities and fun things [...]

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