Liliana Stafford
To succeed is good, to fail is not so bad but to never have had a go is the saddest thing
Children's Author/Illustrator of picture books and junior fiction novels.
To succeed is good, to fail is not so bad but to never have had a go is the saddest thing
Children's Author/Illustrator of picture books and junior fiction novels.
I have created this site so that I can share my books and illustrations with others. Writing and illustrating is like breathing, it is present in everything I do and the stuff of stories is drawn from the normal everyday things that happen. Ideas come while walking around the park or at the beach, chatting with a friend, haunting the children's book section of our local bookstore or driving the car. Some books develop quickly, others take years. Looking back I can see a pattern but looking forward there is only an empty page or another blank canvas. The joy is in filling the pages and covering the canvases to see what is there.
''Ideas come when I take the time to live life slowly and approach the world around me with an open mind.'
Animals and the natural environment have always been an important part of my life. For years our family lived on small rural properties in the hills behind Perth and I was a horse riding teacher. I wrote my first published novel after the death of a beautiful welsh mountain pony called Chiko ridden by my daughter Hermine. My motivation was to write a horse and pony book that was unique to Western Australia; a book that the kids I had taught horse riding would easily relate to and enjoy. I was delighted when two of the books from the pony series won a children's choice award.
Animals and the natural environment have always been an important part of my life. For years our family lived on small rural properties in the hills behind Perth and I was a horse riding teacher. I wrote my first published novel after the death of a beautiful welsh mountain pony called Chiko ridden by my daughter Hermine. My motivation was to write a horse and pony book that was unique to Western Australia; a book that the kids I had taught horse riding would easily relate to and enjoy. I was delighted when two of the books from the pony series won a children's choice award.
On this site you will find my books and illustrations, plus prints and illustrations from some of the wonderful and talented illustrators I have had the privilege to work with. Also you will find photos, videos, the latest news plus information about my talks and workshops. Enjoy.
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