Mawson, Writer-Bear

Hello fellow searchers for quietude, for a slower pace, for a peaceful world full of nice things. Perhaps you would like to turn off the noise and turmoil of a befuddled world for a while. Welcome into Mawson’s cosy world. But wait! Is all as untroubled as it seems? Whatever is happening here? The bears all seem to be on their own islands and in some sort of muddle. You can find out more about…

Cancer Daily Life is a bittersweet collection of illustrations that readers highly involved in the C world can relate to, including friends and family of people with cancer.’ From back cover. This short, colourful picture book finds the odd things, the weird things, and even the ironic things can bring a guarded smile, during cancer treatment. It’s a little something you could give a friend who…

Waylen: ‘Mum’s about to call you, and I thought I’d better give you a heads-up.’Fred (aka Winifred): ‘Don’t tell me she’s got a new boyfriend.’Waylene: ‘Worse. She’s getting married’. So begins a desperate campaign by Fred, or Winifred as she hates to be called, to stop her mother, Tracy, marrying for the sixth time. She accepts being nominated as her mum’s Matron of Honour only because being on…

Ships Log kept by Captain Angus.Star Date: Have no idea. What stars? It’s raining. Have searched for amazing views and astonishing scenery in Madagascar. This doesn’t look like Madagascar. The charts given to me by hose chuckling penguins seem wrong. I did wonder if a chart scrawled with crayon would be reliable. Ships Log: Star Date – Later than before. Still no stars. I have bravely steered…

When you feel lost, alone and left behind, can you ever find again the brightness in your world? Everyone wants to be cherished by their special someone. But how do you go on when they are no longer with you. Mawson explores that almost inexpressible feeling of Lost-ness.A gentle little story about love, loss, and renewal of hope, told simply with pictures of teddy bears. ‘Mawson Bear’s…

MAWSON SAYS: I am a very lucky bear. Not many Writer-Bears get published these days. But I now have Too umm, no, Three books out there in the wide bright world. And one more ready to go. And I helped on another one too. I am now an experienced writer-bear. One is called It’s A Bright World To Feel Lost In . And my Number Too book is called She Ran Away From Love. And one is my book about…

The Tedettes are fascinated by Jane Austen’s History of England, written when she was 16 years old. Her sister, Cassandra Austen, illustrated the pages. People entertained themselves this way, bears, back in the Olden Days. They wrote their own light entertainment, they drew and painted, and they read books aloud and (amazing) they talked to each other. ‘Conversation’, this was called. There…

Dear fellow Baffled Ones, At The Tedettes’ Jane Austen Book Club, confusion reigns. No one can find the the correct period style of bonnets. Wedding veils, sun hats, sleeping hats and Bonnie Bear’s bonny tartan bonnet do not seem to be quite right. As for wearing the correct period style of spectacles, all hope seems lost. The Tedettes have got their paws on a pile of Austen books. (Possibly an…

Dear fellow Baffled Ones, There may have been no ME, once. Imagine! No Mawson at all, fancy that!Then, one day I found myself sort of There. Yes, There I Was! I was sitting .. hmmm. Somewhere. .. hmm .. Where was it now? Oh yes, In a shop. Rather like this splendid fellow here. I heard a cry well up. It came from .. from … ME. From deep down in my stuffing.“Take me Home”, cried that cry, “Take…

You guard them as they laugh and grow,Till, big and strong and brave,They dash off to excitements,Without a backward wave. They plan, they build, they fill their world,Till one hard night they yearn,Quite suddenly, to be safe Home.And softly they return. They find a place long left behind,And through a portal peer,But now it’s strange and different.What they need’s no longer there. Did someone…

‘The path for big dreams is not always easy.‘ There are obstacles or stones in the way of the powerful young girl boldly following the path of her dreams. If you can see them you can go around them, of course, or step over them. But what about those ‘invisible stones’: doubt and fear. As this Letter to a Powerful Girl reminds her, so long as she keeps going, the invisible stone on your path is…

Sue Parritt’s Sannah and The Pilgrim is the first title in her climate fiction trilogy. It is followed by Pia and the Skyman and The Skylines Alliance. I found Sue Parritt’s vision what a future world might turn out when wrecked by climate change to be scarily plausible. The story: Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand) are ravaged by droughts. In Australia in particular. The coastal plains have…