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I write picture books and chapter books for children aged zero to eight.

Long before I started writing for children, I wrote for grown-ups. I still do both. My other self is Victoria Thieberger, an accomplished financial journalist. I've lived and worked in New York, London, Sydney and Melbourne.My articles have been published in the world’s leading media including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Guardian.

I live in Melbourne, Australia, with my husband, two daughters, a cat and some fish.
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Celia and Nonna
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Kayleen West (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator)

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We try not to jostle each other, this collection of 50 or so writers about to be unleashed on a roomful of patient publishers. But when the accordion doors are pushed back, there’s a palpable surge to the front by the keenest to get in the front of the line for their preferred target. I hang back a little; there’ll be time for everyone.

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Nudge: The Final Edition

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Thoughtful and convincing catalogue of the many, many corporate scandals of the past thirty years, culminating in Juukan Gorge and Rio’s willing destruction of historic rock art.
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