Meet Megan Daley, author of The Beehive. Megan talks about her passion for children’s literature, her role as a teacher librarian, and her picture book The Beehive. She also discusses her book Raising Readers, which emphasises the importance of instilling a love of reading in children from a young age and offers practical advice for parents.
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Links mentioned in this episode
- WIN The Librarians of Rue de Picardie by Janet Skeslien Charles
- Buy So You Want to be a Writer – the book!
- Facebook group for So You Want to be a Writer
Writer in residence: Megan Daley
Megan Daley is a multiple award-winning teacher librarian, author, speaker, podcaster, and literary judge, who loves wandering literature festivals. Megan’s best subjects at high school were English and Agriculture and she still adores reading, writing, small-scale farming, growing green things, chickens and bees. Megan lives in humid Brisbane where she waits for it to be cool enough to split her hives and lives with her partner, a commercial beekeeper, and their four children.
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This podcast is brought to you by the Australian Writers' Centre and our course Writing Picture Books.
Find out more about your host, Valerie Khoo (@valeriekhoo on Twitter and @valeriekhoo on Instagram).
