Don't miss Deb Abela in this episode of wondrous possibilities! We dive backwards into Deb's amazing book and offer up fantastic tips for writing the most magical kids books. 

Plus, we announce the winner of our awesome Book Pack and Elodie offers up a brand new Book Pack to giveaway next week. Your school could WIN! 

The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) have announced kids will will have a vote and play an important role in the most prestigious children's book awards in the country. 

Ken talks to the Victorian President of the CBCA, Jo Pankridge and gets all the details, including how you can be involved: shadowjudging.cbca.org.au.

Liv has an amazing book-pack to give away. 

And, we take the Mini Taco Podcast on the road to St Josephs Primary School. 

Legendary Australian Author Sue Whiting discusses her latest book Pearly and Pig. She teaches Elodie and Ken how to speak pig language and the language of animals. Plus, Sue shares some amazing advice from her writing process, and offers up some awesome tips for kids who want to write books. 

Kylie Howarth is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator from Perth, Australia. She was raised in the country alongside her brother, a dog, sheep, several orphaned kangaroos and one very cheeky echidna.  

Her obsession with animals also extends underwater as she has braved lionfish in Egypt, piranha and pink dolphins in the Amazon, marine iguanas and hammerhead sharks in the Galapagos Islands and swum with whale sharks, manta rays and humpback whales at Ningaloo, Western Australia. This obsession has led to an array of awesome kids books featuring many of these amazing creatures.

She’s popped in today to chat about her latest book, Koala Stole My Undies, as well as offer up some awesome advice on creating books.

Today’s guest says he is not a spy. However, a spy would say that, wouldn’t they?! Despite this, our guest shares some awesome advice on writing books for kids, how to gather story ideas, and how to put them together.

He is actually the author of such books as Derek Dool, Alien Zoo, Kick it to Nick, Co-author of Little Legends and the picture book author of Stop the Dad Jokes and The Unfunny Bunny.

He is a TV Producer who has worked on such shows as The Logies, Carols by Candlelight, Prank Patrol, and Kids WB.

But he’s not a spy! He’s written about someone who is a spy though. And that someone is Furball, Sid Furball.

To tell us all about it and share his author journey with us, please welcome Adrian Beck.

What is an editor? What do they do? What happens when you submit your story to a publisher? How do publishers turn it into a book?

Today’s guest was shortlisted as a Rising Star of Australian Publishing at the Australian Book Industry Awards. And, she’s popped in to explain to kids how books are made, what happens when you submit to a publisher and everything in between, please welcome author and editor extraordinaire, Crystal Corocher.

There really are creatures such as Zombi Snails. And they are so incredible you must know all about them!!

Sami Bayly shares the world's most extraordinary creatures with us. Some are bizarre, freaky, ugly, but all are magnificent!! 

Today’s guest is a natural history illustrator based in Australia, who loves all things weird and wonderful. She finds the beauty and importance of all animals regardless of their appearance and hopes to share her appreciation with others. 

Sami shares her processes for writing and drawing, how she gets into the heads of these creatures and all the fun of creating books for kids.

We look at how to write Narrative Non Fiction and make it fun for kids. 

Shelly Unwin is the author of several books for kids, including Blast Off and There’s A Baddie Running Through This Book.

She’s popped in today to share her  author journey and process for writing.

We take a look at Blast Off, which is a Narrative Non Fiction Picture Book. Shelly shares her process for making non-fiction character-based, and fun for kids to read.