The terrible loss of life, injuries to survivors, destruction of homes, wildlife, property makes us try to come to grips with the power of Mother Nature.
While I enjoy beautiful Florida and am participating in the SCBWI Conference here, the USA news blares live shots of the 150 mile long and 50 mile wide crack in the earth that has torn Japan apart.
The Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators SCBWI with its 23,000 children’s writers & illustrators worldwide send their support. Organising the HOPE CARDS for the kids of the Victorian Bushfires with original illustrations and words of hope for the future was one small expression of care.
SCBWI authors and illustrators from around the world donated their works, which now hang in the newly rebuilt Marysville School in Victoria, Australia. The town including the school, was destroyed in the fires.
Currently, I am working with Norman Jorgenson award winning SCBWI author from Perth, to send $20,000 worth of new books to schools impacted by these new natural disasters.
Love to SCBWI New Zealand with special thoughts to SCBWI NZ led by literary agent Frances Plumpton and to SCBWI Japan led by author Holly Thompson.
May the books we write and illustrate bring some warmth to the kids and families of these disasters.
