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Hello All,
 
I’ve had another busy month of travel, including a divine escape from the Melbourne winter with four days in Darwin, the city where I was born! Not many people know this, but Darwin was the first place my parents moved to after leaving Adelaide and beginning their adventure travelling and working all around the world. As a young civil engineer, Darwin was my father’s first posting, where I was born, then we moved to Brunei for four years before heading to England where I first started school. My dad’s work took us all around the world, including Hong Kong, Perth, Adelaide and landing in Melbourne for me to finish my schooling. I guess I inherited the travel bug from them because once I finished school, I joined my father in Shanghai, then later went to Hangzhou to study Chinese painting for three years, before ending up in France with a Frenchman. I am now happy to call Melbourne home, but I do still jump at any opportunity to travel.

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Come Over To My House is the winner of the inaugural DANZ award Picture Book Category.

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DANZ stands for Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Come Over To My House invites us into the homes of families who are D/deaf or disabled so it was wonderful to be the recipient of such an important award.
 
While Eliza couldn’t be there to accept the award on the day, she gave me permission to share this excerpt from our forthcoming book together:
 
Hello! My name is Eliza Hull. I have a physical disability, which means the world can feel inaccessible for me at times. When I was in school, I used a wheelchair whenever I’d had surgery. Sometimes I’d have to do a whole different class than my friends because the classroom had stairs, and that felt very unfair.

 

Daniel is busy illustrating our next book and it will be released in 2025.
 

Meanwhile, if you'd like to watch the Auslan version of Come Over To My House you can find it here

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