ONE climbs up the tree and TWO come down. Bush Birthday explores early language concepts and features baby Australian animals.
Bush Birthday was published in 2018 by Allen & Unwin.
There are a TEN out of bed in the middle of night. A Bush Bedtime explores early counting concepts and features baby Australian animals.
Bush Bedtime was published in 2018 by Allen & Unwin.
What's That Noise? was written by Sally Rippin and illustrated by me in 2008.
What's That Noise? was published by Allen & Unwin and is one of a four book series.
There are over 40,000 copies of this book in circulation and I'm constantly meeting people who say they have a copy.
This was my first picture book, created for my daughter who was two years old at the time. It was published in 1999 by Lothian Books and became the first book in a series of five about Baby Bear and his adventures.
With this book, I won the Chrichton Award for Illustration in 2000.
Published in 2008 by Little Hare, this book was written by Maisie Munro and illustrated by me.
Each double page spread has a flap which reveals an extension to the illustration and a hidden surprise of course.
The sequel to What Makes my Mum Happy was also written by Tania Cox and published by Allen & Unwin in 2012.
In 2013, what Makes my Dad Happy was reissued as My Dad and Me.
In the second book of the Baby Bear series, Baby Bear meets lots of sea creatures while looking for a special shell for his sandcastle. Baby Bear goes to the Beach was published in 2000 by Lothian Books.
The series has been translated into five different languages.
This is the sequel to What's the Time Missie Mouse? and was written by Maisie Munro and published by Little Hare in 2009.
The book introduces the concept of days of the week to the very young and features flaps which allow readers to guess what the activities might be. The cover has a spinning wheel revealing the different days.
In the fourth book of the Baby Bear series, Baby Bear goes to the Farm and helps out Farmer Bear. It was published in 2002 by Lothian Books.
The Baby Bear series has been translated into five different languages.
This book was written by Tania Cox and illustrated by me. It was published by Allen & Unwin in 2012.
The illustrations depict a variety of mothers and their children performing their daly activities.
This is the first book in the Hugo series and was originally published in 2005 by Allen & Unwin in Hardcover. It was reprinted in Paperback in 2008.
All of the Hugo books have maps as endpapers. The map in this book is of the town where Hugo lives, Hometown.
In 2015, after the Hugo books went out of print, I self published Hugo the Flying Firefighter with the help of a crowd funding campaign.
In Baby Bear's third adventure, published in 2001 by Lothian Books, he meets lots of bush friends while on a camping trip.
This book was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and was also a CBCA Notable Book in 2002.
Cock-a-Doodle-Doo, written by Cecily Matthews, was published by Little Hare in 2008.
This is a story about a little rooster overcoming big challenges.
In the fifth of Baby Bear's adventures, he is helped by a special friend after flying his kite. Baby Bear goes to the Park was published by Lothian Books in 2003.
The Baby Bear series has been translated into five different languages.
Hugo's third adventure was published by Allen & Unwin in 2007.
This time, Hugo is travelling on his trusty motorcycle, Rocket when the ground starts to shake. He must save his friends who are about to walk into disaster.
This book too, has maps as endpapers, showing Hometown and the area where Hugo and Rocket travel.
In the second book in the Hugo series, Hugo rescues Penelope Pentland in his boat, Gypsy. Hugo the Lifesaving Sailor was first published in hardback in 2005 and in paperback in 2007.
The series has been published in four different languages.