Andrew Weldon

Paul Jennings and I will talk about our new four-book series for kids, ‘Don’t Look Now’, at the Melbourne Writers Festival Schools’ Programme in August. The Schools’ Programme was recently released, and we have two sessions on Mon 26th August and Thursday 29th August. There’s more on the book here:

http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=655&book=9781743311233

and the full programme is here:

http://www.mwf.com.au/2013/flux-content/mwf2013/pdf/2013-MWF-Schools-Program.pdf

From The Sunday Age, 19th May 2013.

From The Age, 16 May 2013.

From The Age, 14th May, 2013.

$‘Lazy Daisy, Busy Lizzie’ - the super-charming, rhyming picture book for young children that my partner, Mary Ellen Jordan, and I created a while back, has been published in the US (with a slightly different title - ‘Lazy Daisy, Cranky Frankie’) to smashing reviews (below). “The rhyming text will be easy to learn, and audiences will enjoy watching the ever-so-slightly goofy animals act up… .A good addition to the fractious-farm-animals genre, and a fine bedtime story to boot.” Kirkus Reviews “The cheerful, rhyming text is very basic with just a couple of lines per page, making this a good choice for a quick read-aloud and an accessible option for beginning readers… .Kids will request this book again and again, and their grown-ups won’t mind a bit.” School Library Journal “With half-lidded eyes, quirky accessories, and sometimes menacing stares, Weldon’s animals could easily be neighbors to a farm run by Gary Larsen… .readers out to look forward to a return visit to this one-of-a-kind farm.” Publishers Weekly I didn’t even know there was a ‘fractious-farm-animals genre’, but it seems we may have now contributed a seminal work. I’m not sure what ‘Kirkus Review’ IS, but having seen it quoted on books my entire reading life I’m well-chuffed. If you’d like to buy the book it’s widely available online and in the real world. It can also be found at the publisher’s websites. In Australia: http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=791 Or in America: http://www.albertwhitman.com/content.cfm/bookdetails/Lazy-Daisy-Crankie-Frankie Yay!$

‘Lazy Daisy, Busy Lizzie’ - the super-charming, rhyming picture book for young children that my partner, Mary Ellen Jordan, and I created a while back, has been published in the US (with a slightly different title - ‘Lazy Daisy, Cranky Frankie’) to smashing reviews (below).

“The rhyming text will be easy to learn, and audiences will enjoy watching the ever-so-slightly goofy animals act up… .A good addition to the fractious-farm-animals genre, and a fine bedtime story to boot.” Kirkus Reviews

“The cheerful, rhyming text is very basic with just a couple of lines per page, making this a good choice for a quick read-aloud and an accessible option for beginning readers… .Kids will request this book again and again, and their grown-ups won’t mind a bit.” School Library Journal

“With half-lidded eyes, quirky accessories, and sometimes menacing stares, Weldon’s animals could easily be neighbors to a farm run by Gary Larsen… .readers out to look forward to a return visit to this one-of-a-kind farm.” Publishers Weekly

I didn’t even know there was a ‘fractious-farm-animals genre’, but it seems we may have now contributed a seminal work. I’m not sure what ‘Kirkus Review’ IS, but having seen it quoted on books my entire reading life I’m well-chuffed.

If you’d like to buy the book it’s widely available online and in the real world. It can also be found at the publisher’s websites.

In Australia: http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=791

Or in America: http://www.albertwhitman.com/content.cfm/bookdetails/Lazy-Daisy-Crankie-Frankie

Yay!

From The Age, April 2013.

From The Sunday Age, 5th May 2013.

Coming soon…

Friends - this is why you haven’t seen me in a while…

One for Anzac Day. In The Age yesterday, 25th April 2013.

Homecooked Comics Festival - ‘Draw! Draw FASTER!

Hi all This Sunday (28th April) I’m taking part in the fun-sounding ‘Draw! Draw FASTER!’ as part of the Homecooked Comics Festival at the Northcote Town Hall (http://www.facebook.com/events/528582280534078). Intrepid drawers Michael Camilleri, Sarah Howell and I will be up on stage at 1pm and again at 3.30pm, quickly drawing crazy comic panels to the suggestions shouted out by the audience. And it’s game show. I think. Anyway it sounds like heaps ‘o’ fun and you should totally come on down.