Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Sunday 22 March
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Our annual big day out for little readers is back! Children’s Book Festival 2015 lands on Sunday 22 March.
Kids and their parents are invited to dive into the pleasures of books and reading in as many different ways as possible. There’ll be storytellers, musical acts and performers — plus the chance to meet some of your favourite authors and illustrators.
In this session, Hazel Edwards will talk about There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake.
All events are free, but we're taking bookings for sessions featuring Hazel Edwards, Shaun Tan, Gabrielle Wang, Tristan Bancks, Oliver Phommavanh and Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton.
Get in quick – these sessions are sure to book out. If you miss out, though, don't worry; you can still bring your book along to be signed by your favourite author.
Produced in partnership between the Wheeler Centre and State Library Victoria.
Featuring
Hazel Edwards
Best known for There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake, Hazel Edwards writes across media, for adults and children. She is currently writing her autobiography.
In 2013, she was awarded an OAM for Literature. As a national literary ambassador, Hazel supports various reading organisations. She mentors 'Hazelnuts' and is a director on the Australian Society of Authors' board. She is the recipient of the 2009 ASA Medal awarded by her writing peers.
Hazel has been nominated three times for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. This is the world's largest prize for children's and young adult literature.
Based on her Writing a Non Boring Family History, Hazel runs workshops for genealogists. Her junior history books include Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, Professor Fred Hollows and Edith Cowan; A Quiet Woman of Note in the Aussie Heroes series.
Apart from going on an Antarctic expedition in 2001, she has co-written adventure memoirs including Trail Magic; Going Walkabout for 2184 Miles on the Appalachian Trail with her son Trevelyan Quest Edwards, originator of the hippo concept. Difficult Personalities with Dr Helen Mc Grath has been translated into Polish, Korean and Russian.
f2m: the boy within, a YA novel co-written with Ryan Kennedy, tackles coming of age for a youth who transitions gender.
Pocket Bonfire Production's Hippo film premiered at St Kilda Film festival and screened internationally at Edinburgh Film Festival.
Hazel is married with two adult children and two grandsons, for whom she writes stories each birthday.