Category Archives: thoughts

Memories

By elise | Published: September 29, 2009

I really envy people their good memories. I don’t have one. I have a terrible one really. And I think I’ve lost so much of my childhood which, being a children’s writer, it would be really good to access! We were talking about memories on the weekend during the session on Grand Final day. One [...]

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Jumbled

By elise | Published: September 25, 2009

Three things: 1. Just had a great meeting with Allen & Unwin to talk about a new project. It’s been a long time in the wings and is finally getting ready to start (after the epic is finished). A little archaeology, a little mayhem and a lot of film noir! 2. I’m off to Traralgon [...]

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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 [...]

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studio time

By elise | Published: September 20, 2009

Oh I’ve had the best week. My wonderful friend Anne Spudvilas has let me borrow her studio for a few weeks. As many of you would know I’ve been slowly accumulating work for my first solo exhibition, mainly painting at the markets and whenever I can grab a spare hour. Which isn’t very often. Some [...]

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Chatty fun & 60 launches!

By elise | Published: September 15, 2009

Well that was fun I just finished chatting to schools in the online festival. It’s wonderful to get to talk to the kids directly like that. I wish it had been longer! One of the cool questions was if I had made Sally a boy, would that have changed the design? Very good question. I’d [...]

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Iceberg!

By elise | Published: September 12, 2009

My head’s still in Ipswich… I realise that I didn’t explain anything about the festival It is a huge event. It runs for a full week with programs for primary school kids during the week days and some further sessions for adults on the weekend. The most startling fact about the festival is that it [...]

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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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Festival: children, characters and cows

By elise | Published: September 10, 2009

How funny. One moment I was walking through sunny fields of cows on the way to the pub after a long day of teaching… and the next – I’m back at my computer in chilly Melbourne. On Sunday 30th August I headed up to Brisbane with a group of Melbournians, collected Sydneysiders, Perthites and Adeladians [...]

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new books

By elise | Published: August 25, 2009

Back to work finally. Remarkably, I have a couple of days with nothing marked in my diary so it’s back to normal illustration! Woohoo! I have a few projects to catch up on that were booked in ages ago and need some tlc. Recent things. 1. I got some advance copies… so I took some [...]

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short course & MWF

By elise | Published: August 22, 2009

Wednesday night was the last night of my writing for children Short Course at RMIT. I have to say it was such a pleasure to teach – I had a wonderful class of people with varied imaginations and ideas. And they’d better keep me in the loop! I don’t doubt that there will be some [...]