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World water Day – March 22, 2022
When Kids Can Press messaged me that they wanted to celebrate World Water Day with a splashy (see what I did there?!) social media reveal of the cover of my new book The Global Ocean – I was 100% onboard. How could I not be? World Water Day celebrates water and raises...
It’s Really Real Now!
Writing a book is an unbelievably long process, speaking from my experience writing children’s illustrated books anyway. The idea rumbles around in my head for a while. I ruminate on possibilities, and then debate myself about pathways to take. I pour through the...
Proof It’s Real!
It was early spring 2019 when the idea for a new book flashed before my eyes. It wasn’t so much as a flash…and it wasn’t so much of an idea. It was of course a duck. And it floated gently on the currents in my mind. In July 2019,a book proposal was submitted and by...
Happy World Ocean Day!
June 8th is World Ocean Day…a day to celebrate perhaps my favourite ecosystem on the planet! Those who know me know that my heart is most at home when I am by, in, or on the ocean!! There’s nothing I love more than my toes in the water, scanning the horizon for...
Happy Earth Day!
Earth Day has always been an exciting day for me. As an author and educator, it’s usually a day marked by a school visit or participating in an Earth Day event. Of course, celebrating Earth Day this year is going to look a little different for everyone, and what you...
World Water Day – March 22, 2021
Today is World Water Day…and this year’s theme is “What does water mean to you?”. That’s a pretty big question and a great one to get us thinking about water. Depending where you live, who you are and even depending on the day, water can mean different things to...
It all started with a duck…
…a rubber duck that is. There are many ways to approach non-fiction writing. For me, I use a narrative, storytelling approach which I like to anchor in a metaphor. The metaphor pulls together all the individual stories – connecting them to help the reader see the...
Welcome!
This has been months (years?!) in the making, but it is with great joy that I welcome you to the launch of my new website! Pull up a chair and take a look around! As the site grows, this is where you will learn more about me, as well as find the latest news...


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