Nette is an established author of children’s literature and has won several awards for her books, which range from early childhood stories to novels for older readers. Her work includes the forever popular Proper Little Lady and The Web, both of which have won awards and have been translated into many languages. Her latest work, Grave Catastrophe, is a wonderful whodunit about a retired seeing-eye dog who has to save his own skin by solving the particularly vicious murder of the neighbourhood cat.
Nette’s work, although predominantly for children of all ages, includes three adult thrillers. She writes from her farm on the NSW north coast where she shares her life with dogs, an aging cat and other feathered beasts. She continues to fuel her imagination by working part-time at a primary school. This career, which has spanned 34 years, places her at the coalface of changing ideas and understandings of what it is to be a child in the new millennium. She doesn’t confess to being a guru on child development but it certainly helps in putting together a very readable and fun book.
Her work beyond teaching and writing includes regular workshops and author talks at many writing venues, including Nestle Write-Around-Australia and literature festivals that occur around the country. Most recently she has worked at the ALEA ‘Island Journey’ in Tasmania and the Somerset Literature Festival in Queensland.
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