Why anything is possible in children’s author Alison Lester’s imaginary worlds

WHEN children’s author and illustrator Alison Lester wrote the picture book, Sophie Scott Goes South, inspired by an expedition to the Antarctic she almost hit an iceberg.
The award-winning author and Australia’s Inaugural Children’s Laureate from 2011 to 2013 was inspired to write the book after travelling on the Aurora Australis as an Antarctic Arts Fellow in 2005.
It tells the story of nine-year-old Sophie who goes on a month-long voyage to the Antarctic, with her dad, the captain of …

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