Lorena Carrington – Nature Collage and Secret Codes Workshop

The crew at Squishy Minnie are so excited to welcome Lorena Carrington to our store where our favourite little folk will be guided in the creation of a collage using nature and to develop secret codes to sypher! The cost is $17.00 for which the kids will receive a signed copy of Lorena’s book, Leaf Letters, as well as take home their creation.

Lorena Carrington is an illustrator and writer with a background in fine arts, photography and design. She has worked on story collections, anthologies and picture books, and has also created a number of cover illustrations and designs. She is the recipient of the 2020 Australian Fairy Tale Society award, for her “outstanding contribution to the field of Australian Fairy Tales” and a May Gibbs Creative Time Fellowship for 2023. Leaf Letters is her first junior novel.

Leaf Letters:

“Nine-year-old Hazel Bird is happiest on her own, photographing the tiny wild worlds in her neighbourhood bushland. But then she meets Cole, a boy with a hundred pockets and a strange and marvellous way of talking. Together they find hidden treasure and a handwritten book of secret codes? Can you help them solve the puzzles and discover the mysterious child who buried it so many years ago? Written and illustrated by Lorena Carrington, this is a unique, interactive story for young readers told in words and pictures, with coded messages to decipher and mysteries to solve.”

Please check out her work here: https://lorenacarrington.com/