My first book was my memoir “Listening to Country” in 2010. When I worked with our Balarinji studio on this book, I laughed when the designer put the bats upside down in the rain, wrapping their wings around them like a raincoat. I wanted to help children imagine changes of season from scorching dry to hot and rainy, through the descriptive words, and colours and textures of the pictures. “Summer Rain” is about the transition from the Dry season to the Wet season in the far north of Australia. The exclamations – Splosh, Brush, Scratch, Splat and so on – are the clues to how to use paint to create the word. Although the hidden artist in this book uses ochre from the river bank, any paints will do to make a special painting of the natural world. I wrote it with the idea of the fun of being creative in general, and finger painting in particular. “Splosh for the Billabong” is about making art. “Splosh for the Billabong” and “Summer Rain” are a pair of picture books that blend words and Aboriginal designs to explore the magic of the natural world in remote Australia. We hope you enjoy her thoughtful and insightful answers. We were recently given the opportunity to send Ros Moriarty questions, so we asked her a range of topics, from the very general to the specific, involving her new picture books, soon to be reviewed here.
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