Archive for the 'Picture Books' Category

Today I read a very interesting article in our local newspaper, The Murray Valley Standard. The article included details of a recent visit to the district of children’s author, teacher and academic, Mem Fox. She is the author of the picture book Possum Magic, probably the most popular Australian children’s picture book world-wide.
Mem Fox is […]

Writing Course
I am currently doing a writing course that concentrates on writing for children, my chosen area. After 35 years of teaching primary age children I have some insight into the types of stories children enjoy. This course is run by Adelaide author Robyn Opie who has over 60 published titles to her credit.
Mentorship
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Welcome to this web site, the home page of writer Trevor Hampel. This site needs lots of work on it so stay tuned.
Just to arouse a little curiosity here are some of the things I write:
Picture books, novels for young readers, puppet scripts, poetry - both for children and adults, devotionals, short stories and articles.