When I was growing up I loved books with animal characters like Charlotte’s Web and Watership Down. I was looking for a book for lower school English students that contained values and attitudes they could study and aspire to, while at the same time took them away from the everyday.
Bilby
Bilby, a soft and gentle marsupial is enslaved by an evil
rat colony, until through a terrible twist of fate, he meets Essy - a
happy-go-lucky snail. Menaced by the evil rat Fisck, who is determined to kill
them, the pair escape the rats and undertake a perilous journey from the wet
South West forests of Western Australia, through a capital city, and into the
red centre of spinifex country. Pursued by their enemies the two unlikely
friends are on a dangerous race against time as they search for somewhere safe
they can call home.
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The inspiration behind 'Bilby'.
Years before when working as a journalist I had met
a snail farmer who had tiny electric copper wires around her snail paddocks “to
stop the mice pinching her stock”. I
knew I needed to write the story of those snails, and those rustling mice, and
out of that came ‘Bilby’.
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| Some of the many letters and illustrations sent from Children who've read Bilby |
Coming in 2017.
"Scarab" - A time Travelling Fantasy Trilogy.
Scarab is the story of Megan
Price, a small-town West Australian girl from a dysfunctional family who finds
herself transported into Ancient Egypt. Her dreams of pyramids and a
wonderfully exotic life are soon shattered when she meets the handsome and
mysterious Franklin and finds herself caught up in dark mystery that has the
potential to destroy her and all those she has grown to love.
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