Easter Eggs
Meerkat in the Library
There is always an attempt to include my children in my books somehow.
In 'Meerkat in the rain' illustration, it was fun incorporating them.
Cans for Change
'Property of James Ryan' letterbox crate illustration is a head-nod to the plan to write my own Ned Kelly book.
Cans for Change
Boy with the bottles on his fingers illustration is a head-nod to the film, 'The Warriors', with the taunt "Warriors...Come out and playaaay!"
Half-life
Edwin Hubble was always smoking a pipe.
That's how it was in the 1920's.
Tobacco depiction in modern children's books is frowned upon, however.
To be accurate to Hubble's personality and history, with a nod to modern tobacco laws, I naturally stuck a sticky-note to Hubble's telescope.
That, and the reflection of Andromeda Galaxy in the telescope lens.
Cans for Change
Railway bridge illustration is a head-nod to my local Bundamba Train Bridge.
Half-life
Vegemite or in Half-life is portrayed as Brewers' Yeast Extract. It's a tribute to the Vegemite jar launched in the Gilmour Space Technologies Eris rocket launch in 2025.
Half-life
There are soooo many easter eggs in Half-life it requires a book just to catalogue them all. However, the biggest easter egg is the parallel storyline to the AA battery adventure, that of the human story.
Meerkat in the Library
Where's Wendy? a tribute to Where's Wally? that kept me busy as a child who struggled to concentrate on reading books. That, and for my sister Wendy.
Half-life
The offical rubber conveyor belt wasn't invented until 1892. That didn't stop Double-A battery Issac Newton day dreaming of its invention before his death in 1727.
