Category Archives: Night Garden

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 [...]

Just a reminder about..             The Night Garden exhibition at the Books Illustrated gallery until November 30th On display are all of the original illustrations from the book as well as elements of the process – roughs, dummy book and early drafts. Enquire at the gallery about buying “alternate originals” [...]

What a lovely launch! Thank you to everyone that could make it and join in the celebrations. The exhibition looked gorgeous (so nice to see everything up on the walls, framed and looking terribly professional), there was a great crowd of friends and family, and of course plenty of lollies and champagne. Ann James did [...]

You are invited to the launch of The Night Garden Sunday November 11 3 – 5pm at the wonderful Books Illustrated gallery and bookshop @ Gasworks Art Park, 15 Graham St, Albert Park, VIC 3026. ph (03) 9696 0947 The launch is a celebration of this new picture book – with a reading, a demo [...]

..has arrived. I opened the door to find a (very) advance copy of The Night Garden waiting for me! It will still be a couple of months until the book is properly in the country and on shelves but it is brilliant to see it all finished and printed like this. And how does it [...]

Goodness that was a hiatis. I have to admit it, I burnt out a little after the last few months of work but I’m back now. And the good news is that the Night Garden book is all done and finished. Hooray! It was sketched in pencil, drawn in ink, scanned, printed onto watercolour paper, [...]

Another late night yesterday in the studio. I’m getting used to it but after a few weeks of working around the clock my energy levels are starting to drop.. The book of the moment is Night Garden. It’s one of my own stories and I absolutely love working on it. It’s all in fine detailed [...]