![]() ![]() ![]() (Picture books are always 32 pages because of the way they’re folded in the printing process: in two, then four, then sixteen, then thirty two.) This suggestion worked. They suggested that I make a 32-page book and write the story in it. They asked me to try one last time since they felt it was almost there. In the end I said it was hopeless, I just couldn’t do it, it wasn’t working, etc. So, over the next two years we struggled as a threesome to get the story together. I told them I had never written a book to order and couldn’t do it. My publishers at Omnibus Books, Sue Williams and Jane Covernton, asked me to write a typically Australian Christmas story. However, this wasn’t entirely the case with Wombat Divine. When people ask, as they invariably do, ‘Where do you get your ideas from?’ I always reply: ‘From the compost of my own life.’ Now at last he was old enough to take part. For as long as he could remember Wombat had wanted to be in the Nativity. He loved the carols and the candles, the presents and the pudding, but most of all he loved the bush Nativity play. ![]() Wombat Divine Illustrated by Kerry Argent ![]()
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