Category Archives: Night Garden

Free downloads… new stuff

By elise | Published: September 22, 2009

The downloads page on my website is updated now. So, all the links should be working for you to get the colouring-in sheets and The Night Garden word jumble (there’s an answer sheet too). And there’s a new thing… I know how hard it is to draw a character over and over again in the [...]

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Online Festival next week!

By elise | Published: September 11, 2009

Hey guys, I’m going to be doing an online chat for an Online Literature Festival next Tuesday 15th September at 1.30pm (EST). It’s all about making characters and is officially geared at Lower Primary. Schools may well still be able to join in and I’d love to chat and share ideas for coming up with [...]

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New Prints!

By elise | Published: August 14, 2009

I have just selected three of my favourite artworks from The Night Garden to release as limited edition prints. Each has a series of 50 and are beautiful Giclee prints on Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper. Prints will be available from me directly (either from the studio or my markets), Books Illustrated in Middle Park or Customs House [...]

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books for a good home

By elise | Published: September 13, 2008

I’ve heard that it’s been really really REALLY hard to buy The Night Garden at times. Which is pretty frustrating given all of the attention it’s been getting with the shortlisting and the play touring around. The news is… there’s another reprint hitting our shores now and I’ve been assured that the problems are over. [...]

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CHATterboxes

By elise | Published: September 2, 2008

Hellooo new friends. We just had a great chat as part of the Online Literature Festival (hosted by The Learning Place). I talked to lots of highly intelligent kids (or possibly mutant robots – I couldn’t see) and answered a LOT of great questions. It was all happening pretty quickly – if I didn’t answer [...]

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The singing Bush

By elise | Published: September 2, 2008

Yesterday I finally saw the play of The Night Garden by the Tony Bones performers. It was brilliant! I watched them set up in a room at Abbotsford Primary – interesting to see them be so fully self-contained with their own stage, curtains, sound and lighting… They had songs and dances, puppets for the part [...]

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Monsters of one kind & another

By elise | Published: August 16, 2008

Congratulations to the winners of the CBCA book of the year awards – the full list is here. The Night Garden didn’t get beyond its short listing but I was in pretty stellar company. I know a lot of schools were doing their own judging of the short list! How did you go, I wonder? [...]

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The secret joy of festivals…

By elise | Published: August 15, 2008

It’s monday now and I’ve had an enormous week. Yesterday was the Ivanhoe market – battling the cold in our art deco hall and being grateful to everyone who braved the weather, ignoring olympics and heating for a short while. It was our first birthday actually, with cake and champers to celebrate, and I set [...]

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wordless wonder

By elise | Published: May 18, 2008

I’m talking to a few classes and groups next week – adults for a change – looking particularly at story and storyboarding. And I found myself thinking a lot about one of my current projects, the wordless book. It’s been very interesting to see how my approach to story has changed when I’m not getting [...]

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NEWS!!

By elise | Published: April 1, 2008

Hooray!! I’m fabulously happy and grinny as today was the announcement of the shortlist and notables for the CBCA Book of the Year awards. And… The Night Garden got a wealth of gongs – * Shortlisted in the category of Early Childhood. * And also a Notable Book in both Early Childhood and Picture Book [...]

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