Picture Prompts for 'Audrey Goes to Town'

These photos I took at Pioneer Town, Tailem Bend, gave me some prompts for descriptions in the Audrey books.
Is this how you imagined the biscuit tin where Audrey keeps her treasures?







At Mrs Paterson's house in Beltana, there is a description of a firescreen. Here is the real screen.









This photo to the right is similar to the room that Audrey sneaks into to visit her mum in 'Audrey Goes to Town'. Can you recognise it?






There is also a shop there, with goods, the way it might have looked many years ago. Audrey goes into a store like this in Beltana.

Cottons of many colours for mending and sewing. See the ladies gloves hanging there?







Some goods had to be weighed before the store owner could give the price.







This gives some idea of an old kitchen.
Remember how Audrey's mum cut newspaper to put along the shelf in the kitchen?

Audrey Door Hanger

You can print your own Audrey doorhanger, like the one pictured to the left here.

Once you have printed the hanger, cut into the circle so it fits over your door handle.

You can either print on paper and laminate, or print on card.

The doorhanger for printing can be found at Audrey's Fun Page.

www.audreyoftheoutback.net

Questions About Audrey answered

G'day!


Audrey's friends have asked some questions about her, so I thought I'd answer them here so we can all read them.





Sophie Steel asks:
Is Audrey's camel friend real?

Each person would have their own answer to that question. Audrey believes in him and in book three Audrey's Big Secret she says, 'People can only see if they believe.'
Some people - like Price, Audrey's brother - can't believe in him.
But I reckon the famous writer, J.M. Barrie (he wrote Peter Pan) was so clever when he wrote his book The Little White Bird: 'The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.'

How many Audrey books are you going to make?
There will be another novel this year, in September probably.
It was going to be called Audrey's Big Secret, but now the publisher is thinking of shortening it to Audrey's Secret, so I'm not sure of the exact title.
Click here to read an excerpt from the book.
You might be surprised to find out that this excerpt is now NOT in the book. Once a writer has finished the first draft, the editor makes changes and one of those changes was to cut a lot out of this scene where the family are reading out letters to each other.
If you click on Five and Twenty Stories the link takes you to another page on this Blog where you can see an edited page from one of the earlier Audrey books.

I don't know what colour the cover will be yet. But the clever and very nice Ann James will be drawing Audrey and her family again.

There was going to be a picture book. I have finished writing it and the contract is signed. But the publishers, Little Hare Books, have decided to delay that picture book, so I'm not sure what will eventually happen. Book publishing is a strange thing!


Some of you might not have heard Audrey's song. If you go to Audrey's fun page you can click to hear it sung by Bill and Dave. My friend, Bill Swampy Marsh, wrote a beautiful tune and words which really sum up Audrey.

Genevieve and Josephine asked:
Has AUDREY got new windows yet at her house?
Not yet, but the Barlows didn't give each other Christmas presents - instead, they are saving up for windows because they all want them.
But Mrs Paterson, from Beltana, has a proper stove that she is giving to the family and on his next trip to Beltana, Dad will pick it up. Audrey's mum is very excited about that because it means she won't have to go outside to bake bread or cook the meals in the open fire place in the kitchen.

If any of you have more questions, just go to my Guest Book and leave me a message. I'll get back to you with an answer.

Bye everyone and Happy Reading.