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Happy 80th, Edel Wignell! (Australian writer: "Bilby: Secrets of an Australian Marsupial")
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A former teachers' college lecturer and columnist for Australian Grade Teacher and Primary Education Magazine, she lives in Glen Iris, Victoria.
Her first name rhymes with "medal."
http://www.edelwignell.com.au/
Excerpt:
"...she enjoys writing: fiction, non-fiction, scripts and poetry. Secondly, she loves the thought that - somewhere, sometime - someone may turn a page and close one of her books with a sigh of satisfaction or a chuckle, then switch off the light.
"Edel has been writing full time for children and adults since 1979, and part-time for ten years previously. Writer, compiler, journalist and poet, she has 100 books for children, and her writing for adults has been published in more than 100 journals, newspapers, collections and on the Internet, and read on radio."
(She's also written picture books, such as fractured fairy tales.)
http://www.edelwignell.com.au/about-edel-wignell.htm
(here, she talks about where she gets her ideas)
From "Contemporary Authors":
"...My ideas for writing come from my own childhood experiences and those of children I know, including nine nieces and nephews. For example, the delight and terror of two of my nieces (aged four and six) when my husband and I took them through a car wash for the first time inspired a picture-story book, The Car Wash Monster. The story parodies the folktale `The Three Billy Goats Gruff.' It includes three `good' characters and one `bad,' three happenings, and repetitive language such as `I'm coming to eat you up.'
"I like to play with the English language, taking mad sayings and idioms literally by asking `What if?' In my picture book Raining Cats and Dogs, illustrated by Rodney McRae, it literally rains cats and dogs! Another experience I used occurred at school. I often ate salad while the other teachers ate sandwiches and pies. They used to say, `You'll turn into a rabbit!' Years later I remembered this and wrote a juvenile novel, You'll Turn into a Rabbit! In it, a girl named Rowena discovers a magic eating formula that enables her to turn into a rabbit any time she likes. She has some scary and funny adventures as a result.
"My first children's book was an anthology called A Boggle of Bunyips. The bunyip is a terrifying water monster--a creature in the folktales of Australia's aborigines. In the last century, scientists expected to find it. My collection includes stories, verse, extracts, legends, descriptions, reports, and letters to the newspapers that were written from the 1820s to the present day.
"I included the bunyip in my first full-length novel, Escape by Deluge. The story is a blend of fantasy and reality with two interwoven threads. Shelley, who lives on the ninth floor of a building in the heart of Melbourne, hears strange sounds at midnight. `Boom, boom, boom! Yalloooooo!' No one else hears this booming and wailing, so she investigates and discovers that something--a creature of the water--is trapped in a drain below the building. She wonders how she can set it free and thus release herself from its haunting presence. The second thread of the novel describes the bunyip and the aboriginal people living in the Yarra Valley from the mythic era called Dreamtime until the present. Escape by Deluge was inspired by a wonderful photograph of the 1972 Melbourne flood, and my husband's assertion, `The bunyip caused the flood!'...
https://www.google.com/search?q=edel+wignell&biw=1920&bih=906&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjbmPL9t-fPAhVQET4KHVCgCd04FBD8BQgGKAE&dpr=1#tbm=isch&q=edel+wignell+books
(book covers)
https://jackiehoskingpio.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/edel-wignell/
(Q&A interview, 2010)
http://booksforlittlehands.blogspot.com/2012/05/interview-with-childrens-author-edel.html
(Q&A interview, 2012)
https://australianchildrenspoetry.com.au/2014/08/02/interview-with-edel-wignell/
(interview on poetry)
About "Long Live Us":
"Once upon a time, in a cave under a bridge, there lived a Greedy Troll - and he was hungry! How long would he have to wait for his next meal? Soon he hears trip-trap, trip-trap, trip-trap, and hurries out. He discovers the Three Bears, who are on a quest to capture Goldilocks and bring her to justice."
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n83210324/
(some synopses - you have to click at the bottom to read the whole list)
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=edel+wignell&tbm=bks
(more synopses)
https://australianchildrenspoetry.com.au/australianpoets/u-z-2/edel-wignell/
(a few poems)
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/edel-wignell/escape-by-deluge/
(Kirkus review of "Escape by Deluge")
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/edel-wignell/bilby/
(Kirkus review of "Bilby")
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/66177.Edel_Wignell
(some reader reviews)
http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/635797?c=people
(partial booklist)
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Practically-Primary/166201115.html
(Wignell writes about Errol Broome)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyHMpH-lpDI
(2:45 video about "Long Live Us")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQKC4jBOBB0
(short video about "Christina's Matilda" - about the song "Waltzing Matilda")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_oNbfQCngs
(more on that - slideshow, with Wignell)
WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR (partial list):
•(Editor with Don Drummond) Reading: A Source Book, Primary Education, 1975.
•(With Heather Chatfield) Reading Responses: A Literature Program for Primary Schools, Thomas Nelson, 1976.
•(Compiler) A Boggle of Bunyips, Hodder & Stoughton, 1981.
•Crutches Are Nothing: A Collection of Twelve Stories about Disabled Children, Greenhouse, 1982.
•Rick's Magic (part of the Australian Magpie series), Rigby Education, 1982.
•The Ghostly Jigsaw, Hodder & Stoughton, 1985.
•A Bluey of Swaggies, Edward Arnold, 1985.
•Omar's Opal Magic (part of the "Wheels" series), Harcourt, 1985.
•She'll Fall in, for Sure! (part of the "Water" series), Harcourt, 1986.
•A Gift of Squares, Hamish Hamilton, 1986.
•The Car Wash Monster, illustrated by Kim Lynch, Ashton, 1986.
•Born to Lead, Rigby Education, 1986.
•(Compiler) Inviting Authors and Illustrators, Primary English Teaching Association, 1986, revised edition, 1987.
•Fiorella's Cameo, Macmillan, 1987.
•Missing, Macmillan, 1987.
•The Tie Olympics, Macmillan, 1987.
•What's Your Hobby?, Macmillan, 1987.
•Marmalade, Jet and the Finnies, Hamish Hamilton, 1987.
•Raining Cats and Dogs, illustrated by Rodney McRae, Hodder & Stoughton, 1987.
•You'll Turn into a Rabbit!, Hodder & Stoughton, 1988.
•What's in the Red Bag? (novel; adaptation of Wignell's five-part television script for Channel 10 in Australia), Hamish Hamilton, 1988, published as No Pets Allowed, Transworld, 1990.
•Spider in the Toilet, illustrated by Margaret Power, Lothian, 1988.
•I Know That Place!, Primary English Teaching Association, 1989.
•Amanda's Warts, Harcourt, 1989.
•Big April Fools, Harcourt, 1989.
•Mischief Makers, Harcourt, 1989.
•Escape by Deluge, Walter McVitty Books, 1989, Holiday House, 1990.
•A Bogy Will Get You!, Harcourt, 1990.
•Battlers of the Great Depression, Harcourt, 1990.
•The Portland Fairy Penguins, Harcourt, 1990.
•Saving Wildlife, Harcourt, 1990.
•The Little Girl and Her Beetle, Mimosa, 1990.
•The Nursery Rhyme Picnic, Mimosa, 1990.
•Ghost Dog, Era Publications, 1990.
•Voices, Era Publications, 1990.
"Also author of numerous booklets. Author, with husband Geoffrey Wignell, of "Manpower Series" adult literacy unit. Contributor to anthologies, including Stories to Share, compiled by Jean Chapman, Hodder & Stoughton, 1983; Win Some, Lose Some, compiled by Jo Goodman, Fontana, 1985; Do Frogs Wear Jeans?, compiled by Pam Chessell and Hazel Edwards, Longman Cheshire, 1985; Bushfire and Other Stories, Macmillan, 1987; Frightfully Fearful Tales, Macmillan, 1987; Bubbles, Gazelle, 1987; English Magic, Brooks Waterloo, 1988; Reaping a Harvest, edited by Michael Kavanagh, Noel Kilby, and Wilfred Savage, Longman Cheshire, 1988; and Stay Loose, Mother Goose, compiled by Sue Machin, Omnibus Books, 1990. Contributor to reference books, including The Dictionary of Australian Quotations, edited by Stephen Murray-Smith, Heinemann, 1984, and The Macmillan Australian Children's Encyclopedia, 1986."
Lenona.
Her first name rhymes with "medal."
http://www.edelwignell.com.au/
Excerpt:
"...she enjoys writing: fiction, non-fiction, scripts and poetry. Secondly, she loves the thought that - somewhere, sometime - someone may turn a page and close one of her books with a sigh of satisfaction or a chuckle, then switch off the light.
"Edel has been writing full time for children and adults since 1979, and part-time for ten years previously. Writer, compiler, journalist and poet, she has 100 books for children, and her writing for adults has been published in more than 100 journals, newspapers, collections and on the Internet, and read on radio."
(She's also written picture books, such as fractured fairy tales.)
http://www.edelwignell.com.au/about-edel-wignell.htm
(here, she talks about where she gets her ideas)
From "Contemporary Authors":
"...My ideas for writing come from my own childhood experiences and those of children I know, including nine nieces and nephews. For example, the delight and terror of two of my nieces (aged four and six) when my husband and I took them through a car wash for the first time inspired a picture-story book, The Car Wash Monster. The story parodies the folktale `The Three Billy Goats Gruff.' It includes three `good' characters and one `bad,' three happenings, and repetitive language such as `I'm coming to eat you up.'
"I like to play with the English language, taking mad sayings and idioms literally by asking `What if?' In my picture book Raining Cats and Dogs, illustrated by Rodney McRae, it literally rains cats and dogs! Another experience I used occurred at school. I often ate salad while the other teachers ate sandwiches and pies. They used to say, `You'll turn into a rabbit!' Years later I remembered this and wrote a juvenile novel, You'll Turn into a Rabbit! In it, a girl named Rowena discovers a magic eating formula that enables her to turn into a rabbit any time she likes. She has some scary and funny adventures as a result.
"My first children's book was an anthology called A Boggle of Bunyips. The bunyip is a terrifying water monster--a creature in the folktales of Australia's aborigines. In the last century, scientists expected to find it. My collection includes stories, verse, extracts, legends, descriptions, reports, and letters to the newspapers that were written from the 1820s to the present day.
"I included the bunyip in my first full-length novel, Escape by Deluge. The story is a blend of fantasy and reality with two interwoven threads. Shelley, who lives on the ninth floor of a building in the heart of Melbourne, hears strange sounds at midnight. `Boom, boom, boom! Yalloooooo!' No one else hears this booming and wailing, so she investigates and discovers that something--a creature of the water--is trapped in a drain below the building. She wonders how she can set it free and thus release herself from its haunting presence. The second thread of the novel describes the bunyip and the aboriginal people living in the Yarra Valley from the mythic era called Dreamtime until the present. Escape by Deluge was inspired by a wonderful photograph of the 1972 Melbourne flood, and my husband's assertion, `The bunyip caused the flood!'...
https://www.google.com/search?q=edel+wignell&biw=1920&bih=906&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjbmPL9t-fPAhVQET4KHVCgCd04FBD8BQgGKAE&dpr=1#tbm=isch&q=edel+wignell+books
(book covers)
https://jackiehoskingpio.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/edel-wignell/
(Q&A interview, 2010)
http://booksforlittlehands.blogspot.com/2012/05/interview-with-childrens-author-edel.html
(Q&A interview, 2012)
https://australianchildrenspoetry.com.au/2014/08/02/interview-with-edel-wignell/
(interview on poetry)
About "Long Live Us":
"Once upon a time, in a cave under a bridge, there lived a Greedy Troll - and he was hungry! How long would he have to wait for his next meal? Soon he hears trip-trap, trip-trap, trip-trap, and hurries out. He discovers the Three Bears, who are on a quest to capture Goldilocks and bring her to justice."
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n83210324/
(some synopses - you have to click at the bottom to read the whole list)
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=edel+wignell&tbm=bks
(more synopses)
https://australianchildrenspoetry.com.au/australianpoets/u-z-2/edel-wignell/
(a few poems)
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/edel-wignell/escape-by-deluge/
(Kirkus review of "Escape by Deluge")
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/edel-wignell/bilby/
(Kirkus review of "Bilby")
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/66177.Edel_Wignell
(some reader reviews)
http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/635797?c=people
(partial booklist)
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Practically-Primary/166201115.html
(Wignell writes about Errol Broome)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyHMpH-lpDI
(2:45 video about "Long Live Us")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQKC4jBOBB0
(short video about "Christina's Matilda" - about the song "Waltzing Matilda")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_oNbfQCngs
(more on that - slideshow, with Wignell)
WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR (partial list):
•(Editor with Don Drummond) Reading: A Source Book, Primary Education, 1975.
•(With Heather Chatfield) Reading Responses: A Literature Program for Primary Schools, Thomas Nelson, 1976.
•(Compiler) A Boggle of Bunyips, Hodder & Stoughton, 1981.
•Crutches Are Nothing: A Collection of Twelve Stories about Disabled Children, Greenhouse, 1982.
•Rick's Magic (part of the Australian Magpie series), Rigby Education, 1982.
•The Ghostly Jigsaw, Hodder & Stoughton, 1985.
•A Bluey of Swaggies, Edward Arnold, 1985.
•Omar's Opal Magic (part of the "Wheels" series), Harcourt, 1985.
•She'll Fall in, for Sure! (part of the "Water" series), Harcourt, 1986.
•A Gift of Squares, Hamish Hamilton, 1986.
•The Car Wash Monster, illustrated by Kim Lynch, Ashton, 1986.
•Born to Lead, Rigby Education, 1986.
•(Compiler) Inviting Authors and Illustrators, Primary English Teaching Association, 1986, revised edition, 1987.
•Fiorella's Cameo, Macmillan, 1987.
•Missing, Macmillan, 1987.
•The Tie Olympics, Macmillan, 1987.
•What's Your Hobby?, Macmillan, 1987.
•Marmalade, Jet and the Finnies, Hamish Hamilton, 1987.
•Raining Cats and Dogs, illustrated by Rodney McRae, Hodder & Stoughton, 1987.
•You'll Turn into a Rabbit!, Hodder & Stoughton, 1988.
•What's in the Red Bag? (novel; adaptation of Wignell's five-part television script for Channel 10 in Australia), Hamish Hamilton, 1988, published as No Pets Allowed, Transworld, 1990.
•Spider in the Toilet, illustrated by Margaret Power, Lothian, 1988.
•I Know That Place!, Primary English Teaching Association, 1989.
•Amanda's Warts, Harcourt, 1989.
•Big April Fools, Harcourt, 1989.
•Mischief Makers, Harcourt, 1989.
•Escape by Deluge, Walter McVitty Books, 1989, Holiday House, 1990.
•A Bogy Will Get You!, Harcourt, 1990.
•Battlers of the Great Depression, Harcourt, 1990.
•The Portland Fairy Penguins, Harcourt, 1990.
•Saving Wildlife, Harcourt, 1990.
•The Little Girl and Her Beetle, Mimosa, 1990.
•The Nursery Rhyme Picnic, Mimosa, 1990.
•Ghost Dog, Era Publications, 1990.
•Voices, Era Publications, 1990.
"Also author of numerous booklets. Author, with husband Geoffrey Wignell, of "Manpower Series" adult literacy unit. Contributor to anthologies, including Stories to Share, compiled by Jean Chapman, Hodder & Stoughton, 1983; Win Some, Lose Some, compiled by Jo Goodman, Fontana, 1985; Do Frogs Wear Jeans?, compiled by Pam Chessell and Hazel Edwards, Longman Cheshire, 1985; Bushfire and Other Stories, Macmillan, 1987; Frightfully Fearful Tales, Macmillan, 1987; Bubbles, Gazelle, 1987; English Magic, Brooks Waterloo, 1988; Reaping a Harvest, edited by Michael Kavanagh, Noel Kilby, and Wilfred Savage, Longman Cheshire, 1988; and Stay Loose, Mother Goose, compiled by Sue Machin, Omnibus Books, 1990. Contributor to reference books, including The Dictionary of Australian Quotations, edited by Stephen Murray-Smith, Heinemann, 1984, and The Macmillan Australian Children's Encyclopedia, 1986."
Lenona.
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