Audrey of the Outback
'Imagination is a girl's best friend.'
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About Me
- Christine Harris
- Mount Barker, Adelaide Hills, Australia
- I’ve always loved books. As a child I escaped into other worlds via the written page and pretended I was a character in the story. I still do this, but now I write down my own versions of what that character does. My goal is to make people laugh, cry or gasp when they read my stories. Or when they hear me tell stories. After an especially exciting talk in Alice Springs, in Central Australia, a seven year-old rushed up to me and said, ‘Are you going to be a comedian when you grow up?’ Then he put one hand to his mouth and said, ‘Oh, you are grown up, aren’t you?’ Perhaps that is the key to why I write for younger readers. Part of me is their age. Truly, I wrote my first book up a tree. Okay, I was only nine years old. But it was a really big tree. That book was never published, but it was one of my most exciting. Not only was I up a tree, I was being rescued by a surprisingly hairless Tarzan. One of my favourite sayings about books is a Chinese proverb, ‘A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.’