Deb Abela
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Deborah trained as a teacher before becoming the writer/producer of a national children’s TV show. She left in 2002 and has since become an internationally published and awarded author of 30 books, including her climate change trilogy, Grimsdon, New City and Final Storm. The Stupendously Spectacular Spelling Bee and The Most Marvellous Spelling Bee Mystery were inspired by her stupendous grade 4 teacher. Her latest novels are the 2023 CBCA notable, The Book of Wondrous Possibilities and The Kindness Project, about four kids who band together to change the world. Her latest picture book is, No More Room in the Bed, (Feb 2025) a funny story about a stormy night and one very crowded bed.
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Workshop: Reading and Resilience
After writing 30 books, it still fascinates Deb how a small idea, when nurtured and developed, can become a novel and how reading can nurture and create empathetic humans. Deb writes stories she hopes kids will love, but she also wants to create plots and characters that foster empathetic, resilient young humans. From flooded cities, wondrous books and kindness projects, she’ll explore how her stories put kids at the centre of exciting, sometimes difficult situations but wrapped in the safe world of a book, which can reveal worlds and ways of being that will stay with readers forever.
After writing 30 books, it still fascinates Deb how a small idea, when nurtured and developed, can become a novel and how reading can nurture and create empathetic humans. Deb writes stories she hopes kids will love, but she also wants to create plots and characters that foster empathetic, resilient young humans. From flooded cities, wondrous books and kindness projects, she’ll explore how her stories put kids at the centre of exciting, sometimes difficult situations but wrapped in the safe world of a book, which can reveal worlds and ways of being that will stay with readers forever.
