So here is the official bit:

Davina Bell is an Australian author of books for young people of all ages, from babies to teens. Her work is published worldwide and has been translated into over twenty languages. She is a two-time winner of the Australian Book Industry's Picture Book of the Year, and has been awarded the Children's Book Council Book of the Year for Older Readers as well as the New South Wales Premiers Literary Award for Young People's Literature. Davina has worked as an editor and publisher in the world of children's books, and now writes full-time in Melbourne.

Now that’s out of the way, here are some slightly more interesting things about me:

I love New York, blossoms, tofu burritos, nature, picture books, the New York Times and finding out interesting facts about Amish people.

If you are reading this and you are a fat baby, I pretty much already love you (and you are also very clever).

If you ever want to buy me a coffee, fyi, I drink soy milk, and thanks so much for offering.

In mid-2014, I moved from Melbourne to Yallingup in down-south WA to write a novel, learn to surf and master the art of gluten-free pastry. Turns out these are all quite tricky things to do! I only ended up writing the novel, but that book was published by Text Publishing 2020 and that's worth all the gluten-free pastry in the world. Probably.

Now I live in Melbourne again, where I can hear the trams ding and there's all the coffee in the world, but I still dream of the WA beaches.

When I was a little person, I looked like this - the one on the left.

In 2012, I volunteered with Nakuru Hope, an incredible and inspiring organisation that educates children and supports families in the Kaptembwa slum of Nakuru, Kenya. You can read more about the project at www.nakuruhope.org.

Bye for now!