1: What is your full name?
2: List some of the books you've written.
The Play School Party Book, The ABC Fun Book, The ABC Book of Board Games, Soccerina,Trivia Man, Red Golf Balls, What Truly Counts, Surf School, Surf Sisters. I started with the kindy age group and went through to YA!
3: How did you get into writing?
I was always a passionate reader and when I left school I got work writing for newspapers and magazines and then moved into working on books. I always had lots of ideas for books but couldn't find authors to write them so I started doing it myself and after a few published activity books my agent encouraged me to try writing a story. That story ended up being Trivia Man which the University of Queensland published.
4: What books or authors did you love as a child?
I started with Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree and Famous Five, then Little Women, Treasure Island, Ash Road and later started reading Melina Marchetta, Catherine Jinks, Maureen McCarthy, Patrick Ness, Caroline B Cooney, Garth Nix
5: What books or authors do you love as an adults?
I never stopped reading kid's and YA books as there is always something great to read. Writers for adults that I love are: Jennifer Johnston, Ann Patchett, Isabel Allende, Susan Johnston, David Malouf to name a few.
6: What can we expect from Laurine Croasdale in the future?
7: You were a scriptwriter on Hi-5! for the first season of the show. How did this opportunity arrive? One of the show's producers, Helena Harris, read my book Red Golf Balls and loved it and I ended up writing the segment for 'Jup Jup', the puppet who jumps out of the boxes. It was early days for the show and has been interesting to watch it develop over the years.
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