“I can’t actually remember the writing. I can’t remember, I suppose, agonising over words or sentences or anything like that ...
A stunning Mallee story from Forest Street literacy coach
“When I first sat down, I just had this burning desire to get all of my thoughts and feelings and memories of growing up on a wheat farm in the Mallee, I just had all of these thoughts tumbling around in my brain for such a long time that I wanted to write them down.” Forest Street Primary School literacy coach and author Jodi Toering is describing the early days of her first picture book, Mallee Sky, which has just been launched.