Category Archives: Night Garden

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 [...]

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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News and prizes!

By elise | Published: November 24, 2010

Hello dear friends. We’re hitting that festive time of the year again and I have been hard at work creating all manner of things to share with you. We have also revamped the online shop and honestly I’m still riding high on the excitement of the Strangely Familiar show earlier this year. To celebrate and [...]

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Mondoodle & BIG news

By elise | Published: August 17, 2010

Hello lovely friends. Firstly let me apologise for the accidental tuesdoodle. Which isn’t even a word. I was working hard all weekend (hello to everyone at the markets) and then spent the last two days at a school, MGC, in Richmond. Hello awesome girls! We had a very productive and fun two days. Well I [...]

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New page – look right…

By elise | Published: September 24, 2009

Hello teachers, parents and kids. There’s a new page here (top right) called SCHOOL THINGS. It has colouring-in sheets, a word jumble, the sheet of images of “Strange” the cat from The Night Garden, and a rogue’s gallery of some of the pictures I’ve created when visiting schools – as directed by the kids in [...]