Laureate Thoughts
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Being Australian Children’s Laureate involves a lot of travel and a lot of talking, plus quite a bit of writing, often all at the same time. Here’s a selection of the bits and pieces I scribbled on planes and in motel rooms and sometimes on lecturns if the audience had fallen asleep.
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- Me-In-Your-Shoes March: Stories Make Us Hopeful
- Afraid-No-More April: Stories Make Us Inspired
- Mostly-Not-Squashed May: Stories Make Us Determined
- Just-Admit-It June: Stories Make Us Honest
- Genuinely-Smart July: Stories Make Us Clever
- Ask-The-Question August: Stories Make Us Curious
- Say-It-Anyway September: Stories Make Us Cheeky
- On-The-Other-Hand October: Stories Make Us Thoughtful
- Now-And-Forever November: Stories Make Us Celebrate
- Dare-To-Do-It December: Stories Make Us
- Just-Imagine January: Stories Make Us Creative
- Feel-The-Feelings February: Stories Make Us Connected
- Mostly-Very-Squashed May: Final Thoughts
Interviews
- Magpies magazine: Going In To Bat For Stories
- Books+Publishing magazine: In Somebody Else’s Shoes
- Underline magazine: Super Laurie
- Morris’s End-Of-Laureateship Report
(PDF file – includes links to lots of other interviews on pages 12 & 13)