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I’ll be at Kyilla Farmers’ Markets tomorrow doing a reading and signing of my books- join me there at 10.30am if you’re looking for a way to spend the morning! 📚💚☺️#bookweek2020 #perthauthor #perthillustrator @kyillafarmersmarket

Those 2nd birthday icecream cake feelz 😂😂😂 Captured perfectly by Auntie Ellie @ellieb_93 📸 #twoyearsold #caaaake

We made the social pages! 🤣🌟 This time last week (it takes me this long to get to social media these days) I got to attend the award ceremony for the WA Premier’s Book Awards and see my book up there among so many talented WA writers and illu

Today’s paper! 😱😁🤩 @fremantlepress #violetandnothing #wapremiersbookawards #wabooks #loveozkidlit #australianbooks #perthauthor #perthillustrators #picturebooks #sundaytimes

Oh my goodness!!! Violet and Nothing has been shortlisted for the 2019 WA Premier's Prize for Writing for Children!! 😄🥳

In all honesty, these last few months have been so hard and exhausting and demoralising that I have found myself losing all mot

Kit would like to introduce you to my new picturebook which hits the world today: ‘The Friendly Games’, written by the wonderful @bailliekaye and published by @midnightsunpublishing ✨❤️ The true story of a boy who saw the discord, fightin

In the spirit of trying to focus on positive news in these challenging times, here is the cover of 'The Friendly Games', my next picturebook with the wonderful @bailliekaye and @midnightsunpublishing which will be released on June 1st! 🏅
The book te

I was excited to find out this week that my picturebook ‘Violet & Nothing’ has been chosen to be performed by Story Trove at the 2020 Adelaide Writers’ Festival Kids Day! And even more stoked to see who else is in the lineup- Me

“Portrait après learning to feed self with spoon” 🥄🥄 #toddlerlife

“Once you begin to see them, even the most sombre and dispiriting scrub never stops revealing subtle colours, in the flowers, barks, leaves and lichens. In the trunk of a manna gum there is cream, yellow, grey-brown, tan and brilliant white: se

Looking back on this free-verse poem I wrote about Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains that was published in APJ six years ago 🌿 I used to read (and write!) poetry all the time and it honestly gave me a kind of peace that nothing else did... when

I painted this little picture a couple of years ago, and I’m pretty sure I must have seen into the future and had a vision of my own son because THIS IS KIT, right?! 🤣🤣 #spooky

My time in the UK was also a research and writing trip for a couple of things I’m working on. I’ve been researching magic/myth/folklore/fairytales, and the whole time I was there I felt this strong pull back to my childhood. I lived in En

Someone’s a fan of the water playground 😆☀️

Today Mum, Dad, Kit & I went to see my exhibition in the WA State Library- it was a testament to how crazy busy I was last year that it has been up since September and I have only seen it briefly once! It was lovely to go there with my family and

My official #2019topnine and my own personal top 9 ☺️ My 2019 has been a year of ups and downs, moments of absolute joy and real darkness. I published my first 3 picturebooks, fulfilling a lifelong dream. I got to speak at schools, at libraries and e

Seasonal reading 🎄📚🎅
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#christmasbooks #christmasbookstagram #christmaspresents #booksmakethebestgifts #holidayreading #toberead #tbrpile #nonfictionbooks #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstoread #authorillustrator #bookworm #bookshelf #ilov

This was Kit’s end of the night ’Christmas-is-over’ look as we were leaving family Christmas last night☹️🤣🎄 #christmas2019 #toomuchturkey #christmastree #boxingday

Annual Wray family Christmas dessert table photo! 🥮🍰🍭🍫🥧🎂#sugarcoma #christmasdesserts #sweetoverload #familychristmas #hugefamily

Merry Christmas! 🎄✨❤️

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