![]() I wrote a four and half page story called Hush the Invisible Mouse. In the years that I’d been reading to Chloë I’d been shocked and dismayed by the very few Australian books available for Australian children so I determined to write a very Australian book. It was a lesson well taught, and well learnt. No wonder the lecturer had set the task-we all discovered how difficult it was to write for young children and our estimation of children’s authors rose sky high. ‘How easy!’ I felt that the assignment was beneath me. In the introductory class I was horrified to discover that, in an otherwise highly demanding academic course, one of the first assignments was to write a children’s book. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was such an avid reader I couldn’t keep up with her passion for books so I decided, as a non-traditional student, to take a course in children’s literature to find out about as many books as possible that might interest her, particularly those that had been published since my own childhood. “Once upon a time, but not very long ago, deep in the Australian bush, there lived two possums. ![]()
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