Author Visit
You can purchase the authors books which will be signed on the day of the visit.
You can purchase books from any author even if your child's grade did not hear from that author.
Lisa Shanahan - Prep
Lisa Shanahan is a writer of picture books and fiction for young people. She loves moon-gazing, making up words, mock orange blossom, black cockatoos, peppermint tea and shouts of unexpected laughter.
Her picture book, Hark, It’s Me, Ruby Lee! (ill. Binny Talib) was a 2018 CBCA Honour Book of the Year for Early Childhood, and was also shortlisted in the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for Children’s Fiction. Her most recent picture book, the delightful Hello World (ill. Leila Rudge) won the 2022 Speech Pathology Book of the Year for Birth-3-year-olds.Harry Laing - Year 1
Harry is an energetic and engaging comic performer with a love of language. He loves performing for large audiences of children and keeps them spellbound with his poems, (interactive) chants and the magical creatures from his book covers.
Harry encourages students in Year 1 to purchase Moonfish as it is age appropriate.
Penny Reeve - Year 2
Louise Park - Year 3
Louise Park draws from a strong background in Education, literacy and publishing to produce her blockbuster bestselling series fiction that includes
Zac Power, Boy vs Beast, D-Bot Squad, Star Girl, Grace’s Secrets,Grace’s Escape and Last Man Out.
With sales in the millions world-wide Louise writes under her own name as well as the hugely successful pseudonyms: H. I. Larry, Mac Park and Poppy Rose.
Deborah Abela - Year 5
Deborah trained as a teacher before becoming writer/producer of a national children’s TV show at Network TEN.
She then went to Africa where she was harassed by monkeys, got caught in a desert sandstorm and thrown in jail twice
Since then, she has become an internationally published and awarded author of 28 books.
Tim Harris - Year 6
Tim Harris is the award-winning bestselling author of several laugh-out-loud series for kids, including Ratbags, Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables, Toffle Towers and Exploding Endings.
A former primary school teacher of 15 years, his stories are filled with quirky scenarios, loveable characters and plenty of imagination.
