The Day I Saw a Ship

This story takes place in a secluded little town, located by the powerful yet motionless salty sea, a place where not many wished to live and be. Nevertheless, it was the home to a rather gloomy and soulless town where life had become predictable, most people glued to phones with the engulfing clouds of traffic fumes and people bustling around. In this town, lived a little girl who was feeling rather bored and lonely, she was fed up with being different and feeling down. You see, she was a girl that loved to be creative, imagine and dream, aliens and heroes, magic wands, and gigantic laser beams. Even though she was always reminded she was weird, different, she could not help to wonder and dream. You see, she was born unique and different, sometimes things may not be as they seem. One cold and wet, windy day she is walking down the pebbled beach eating fish and soggy chips, all of a sudden from the corner of her eye she thought she saw…no, she’s sure she saw a ship!

Bailey's Bandanas

Bailey, a spirited four-year-old blue heeler, is thrust into a world she doesn’t recognize when diagnosed with cancer. Despite her age, her indomitable spirit is known to take on challenges headfirst. But this time, the stakes are higher – it’s the fight of her life.

Plagued by confusion and fear, Bailey struggles to understand her sudden bouts of sickness and the changes to her once familiar routine. Yet, during one of her chemotherapy sessions, an unforeseen event turns the tide, instilling hope and unity amongst all the canine warriors battling the disease.

The Governor General Cleaned My Shoes

“Even before I was born, I was trying to do things my own way. I made life difficult for my mother, Jess, who was confined to bed for the last trimester of her pregnancy. I had disappointed my father, Geoff, by insisting that I be born a day earlier than his birthday, and I had mercifully waylaid their plans to call me Elizabeth.”

So begins my story that has me watching rockets going up at the Woomera Rocket Range, beating the boys at marbles (and winning the prized milky white marble with coloured orange waves), nearly being run over in a toilet, swimming with a snake on my way to inspect a very dead horse, setting tongues wagging in Canberra in a Commonwealth car and eliminating plastic bananas from Australia’s entire eastern seaboard. And yes, the Governor General did clean my shoes.

Rock Me Baby

Young nurses navigating life away from home in the vibrant 70s, where the music is groovy, and men in uniform are hard to resist. Friendships, romance, and wild adventures await as they juggle their dreams and desires. In this whirlwind of freedom and temptation, what could possibly go wrong?

A Cow Called Larry

Larry lived alone on a pretty farm.

She had everything she could want, green grass, cool water, lots of hills to roam, and she could do whatever she wanted each day! But she didn’t have any friends.

When a big noisy truck came one day and twenty cows joined her in the paddock, she was overjoyed and so excited to have some company!

Then she showed them how important friends are.

A Hen Called Pecker

Pecker was a happy healthy hen living on a farm with other chooks when she noticed the others didn’t share their food, just jumped in, and ate as much as they could without thinking that some of the smaller and younger chooks might not be getting enough of the food.

When a young hen became weak and sick one night, because she wasn’t getting any food and missing her mealtime snacks, Pecker decided to teach the other chooks the meaning of sharing.

What do you think happened when she tried to get all of the other chooks to share the food the farmer gave them?

Did they just keep on eating as much as they could for themselves, or did they change their ways and start to share?

A Lion Called King

King was a handsome lion who had raised his family like a good father, and he had learnt the meaning of respect in his many years in the jungle.

When some younger lions decided they liked all the things that King had gathered in his life, and wanted them for themselves, King had to teach them that you just can’t come into someone’s life and think you can take their things, their homes and scare their family without asking.

King made them learn and understand the life lesson of respecting each other.

A Rabbit Called Sneeze

A young rabbit called Sneeze experienced an emotion called ‘fear’ when some hunters fired their guns near his home.

His parents realised that he hadn’t felt scared like that ever before, so they spoke to him quietly and warmly, and told him how to handle fear.

We will all feel scared some time in our lives, scared for ourselves or for our family and friends, so it’s something we should all know how to handle and to know what the safest thing to do about it might be when it happens.

A Sheep Called Mo

When we are growing up and hearing mums, dads and teachers talking to us, there are so many other things happening at the same time, like playing and eating. Sometimes, although we hear them talking, we don’t actually listen.

Mo heard his father say ‘don’t wander too far away from the farm,’ but he didn’t really listen to him, so the day came when Mo had wandered so far away from his home that he became lost!

Find out if his parents found him again, and learn how important it is to listen not just hear!

A Duck Called Francis

Francis was just a normal everyday duck. He went to school, he played with his friends, he loved his family and he just loved being a duck!

But he got very dirty when he played outside and sometimes, when he came back inside to have lunch or dinner, he forgot to wash himself. Most of the time he was lucky that no dirty germs gave him an infection – but one day, when he came home after playing in the mud, Francis forgot to wash!

The next morning, he woke up with a swollen face and such a sore head. When the doctor came to fix him, he told Francis and his mother something very interesting!

Find out what he told them that would change their way of living.

A Horse Called Honey

When Robyn’s horse Honey was visited by the vet, he noticed some of Honey’s teeth had been eaten away by germs because she hadn’t been cleaning her teeth properly!

When Honey was told she would lose two teeth because they hadn’t been kept clean, she was cross with herself. And then when she had to have them removed… she was cross again, and in pain!

Do you clean your teeth properly, so the dentist won’t have to drill them or remove them?

It only takes a few minutes each night to start the teeth cleaning process, so who wants to be like Honey?

Outrageous Rhymes

Outrageous Rhymes sparkles with funny observations and characters. Like a pig who becomes an interior designer or an elephant, whose desperation for a friend unravels into her becoming a killing machine – accidentally of course! It brings amusement to everyday schooling, suggesting homework contravenes the Child Protection Act and makes slightly naughty comments about family, teachers and everyday chores.The rhymes reinvent some classic stories like Cinderella and Pinocchio with amusing observations of the characters, their flaws and their journey through the tale. Almost incontinent grandparents are given their moment in the limelight and Goldilocks does not fare well in being a kind and caring child. Morals may have conveniently been forgotten by some of the characters who you (and your parents) can judge at your leisure.