A New Book!

Happy happy day! I am really thrilled, excited, delighted, happy and ecstatic to announce that today marks the release of my new book baby, Do Not Forget Australia, published by Walker Books and illustrated by the extraordinarily talented Sonia Kretchsmar.

 I was lucky enough to speak at the Perth Writer's Festival on the weekend, and got the chance to share Do Not Forget Australia with people there. You can see just how happy I am about the book!


To celebrate the new release, I am off on a blog tour over the next couple of weeks. I will be visiting lots of different blogs to talk about the book, where the idea for it came from, how I wrote it, and more. Sonia will also be talking about her own role.


The tour starts today at the blog of my lovely friend Claire Saxby. I am so happy to start the tour there and to talk about friends, because this is a story about friendship, and it is fitting that I start the tour on such a wonderful friend's blog. The rest of the tour will visit the following blogs:
 

1st March 2012	Let's Have Words
2nd March 2012	Kids Book Capers
3rd March 2012	Running With Pens
4th march 2012	Read and Write with Dale
5th March 2012	Karen Tyrrell
6th March 2012	Writing for Children
7th March 2012	Spinning Pearls
8th March 2012	Katswhiskers
12th March 2012	Pass It On
12th March 2012	Kids Book Review
13th March 2012	Under the Apple Tree
14th March 2012	Lorraine Marwood. Words into Writing

I do hope you'll enjoy reading about the little school in France that inspired this story.

Now I'm popping the cyberbubbly. Here's cheers to good friends, and to  new books.

Have a great day!