Cirrus@Austlit

'Freelance illustrator and designer Sinead Hanley tells Reading Time how cheeky Nepalese chickens helped bring her first published book, Chooky-doodle-doo, to life and lets slip a secret hiding in the feathers of the Chooky-doodle-doo rooster…'

'Sandi Harrold is an artist, children’s author and illustrator. She has worked as a kindergarten teacher, director and teacher at a C&K early childhood centre, and has also taught ESL (English as a Second Language). Sandi currently tutors children with special needs and spends every spare moment writing and painting at her home, a traditional old ‘Queenslander’ in the western suburbs of Brisbane. She spoke to Reading Time about her career and her art…'

'Jane Fry, author of new picture book, Under The Rose Bush, which deals with the difficult topic of Alzheimer’s, dropped in to Reading Time to tell us about her writing process…'

'Choechoe Brereton is the debut author of the amazing and imaginative A HOUSE FOR DONFINKLE. Choechoe loves writing. She also loves rainy days, hot chocolate, whales, friendly monsters and magical shops. She doesn’t know where she would be if she couldn’t imagine. Luckily for all concerned, she does imagine and today she imagines for us at Reading Time….'