Best known for There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake, which was recently translated into Chinese, Hazel writes across media, for adults & children.
A literary ambassador, Hazel is involved with the 2012 National Year of Reading and the Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge. She holds 'webinars', mentors and is a director on the Australian Society of Authors' committee. She is the recipient of the 2009 ASA Medal awarded by her writing peers.
Based on her Writing a Non Boring Family History, Hazel runs workshops for genealogists. Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop in the Aussie Heroes series is her latest junior history book and available in print & ebook.
Her latest picture books include Flight of the Bumblebee with classical music CD, Plato the Platypus Plumber and the new Birthday hippo.
E-book literacy mysteries series are available from her website.
Pocket Bonfire Production's 'Hippo' film premiered at St Kilda Film festival for the 30th anniversary of the book and is screening internationally at Edinburgh Film Festival, Austin, Texas and Washington film festivals.
Hazel Edwards is one of Australia's nominees for The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award www.alma.se . This is the third time Hazel has been nominated. The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) is the world's largest prize for children's and young adult literature.
Hazel is married with two adult children and two grandsons for whom she writes stories each birthday.
www.hazeledwards.com
We all have people in our lives who frustrate, annoy or hurt us. Consider those who claim 'I'm always right!', workplace bullies, or obsessive personality types. And most of us hurt others occasionally, too.
We all have people in our lives who frustrate, annoy or hurt us. Consider those who claim 'I'm always right!', workplace bullies, or obsessive personality types. And most of us hurt others...
Published: 01/06/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143011989
RRP: $26.95
I didn't want to go to hospital. My big sister said, 'My hippo knows all about hospitals. He can go with you.' There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake. And he's going to hospital too.
Everybody's favourite hippopotamus is back in a wonderful new picture book sure to delight old and new fans of the cake-eating hippo.
This much-loved and best-selling series has sold worldwide and been translated...
I didn't want to go to hospital. My big sister said, 'My hippo knows all about hospitals. He can go with you.' There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake. And he's going to hospital too.
Everybody's...
Published: 08/01/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143501374
RRP: $14.95
'Mummy is having a baby . . .
I've got a daddy and a big brother, but we haven't had a baby before. So I told my hippopotamus who lives on the roof and eats cake.
He knows everything about babies.'
'Mummy is having a baby . . .
I've got a daddy and a big brother, but we haven't had a baby before. So I told my hippopotamus who lives on the roof and eats cake.
He knows everything about babies.'
Published: 03/09/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143501398
RRP: $14.95
'Only three sleeps to go and then it's my birthday!
There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake. It's his birthday, too.
We are going to have our party together.
A jungle party. And all our friends can come in animal costumes.'
The hippo is back to celebrate his 30th birthday with a brand-new book! Join him and his friends for a jungle-inspired celebration full of games and lots of jungle-party...
'Only three sleeps to go and then it's my birthday!
There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake. It's his birthday, too.
We are going to have our party together.
A jungle party. And all our friends...
Published: 01/03/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670072637
RRP: $24.95
I've got a new school bag.
I put my red drink bottle and my red lunch box in my school bag.
My hippopotamus is packing his school bag too.
The little girl from There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake is starting her first day of school!
She takes her hippopotamus with her and together they face those first-day-at-school experiences – meeting your teacher, eating , lunch in the playground...
I've got a new school bag.
I put my red drink bottle and my red lunch box in my school bag.
My hippopotamus is packing his school bag too.
The little girl from There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating...
Published: 03/07/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143501404
RRP: $14.95
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