LORRAINE WILSON

Author

As a child growing up in country Victoria, Lorraine loved to read - a passion that continues today. She taught for twenty-two years before resigning to become an Education Consultant, and is now well recognised and highly regarded for her expertise in language curriculum and literacy development. In 1996 she was awarded the ELEA medal by the Australian Literacy Educators Association.

However, it was while teaching at a large inner city primary school with a majority of migrant and poor children that she began to write. These first titles became the well known City Kids which sell all around Australia and in America. Following the publication of City Kids, Lorraine was beseeched by children from country Australia to write about their lives, hence she wrote Country Kids.

Lorraine writes extensively both reference material for teachers and books for children. She has now written over two hundred books including Write me a Sign, Write me a Poem, Bubblegum, My Mum has False Teeth, Footy Kids, The Lift-Off Kids, I Have Two Dads, and I Speak two Languages.

In an author session at schools she discusses the source of her ideas, her writing process, consultation with audience and censorship in writing. She also shows rough writing drafts, artists roughs and finished art.

As well as relating well to students at all levels — teachers are always enthusiastic about the ideas that Lorraine gives them to try with their own classes.