Posted on 11th June, 2012 by
Driz-Bone clothing store - which since 1898 has been producing genuine, rugged apparel made for the individuals and industries shaping the Australian outdoor way of life - recently interviewed Children's Laureate Alison Lester on their blog. Rugged Times.
With a focus on outdoor living, Alison was the perfect interviewee as a Children's book illustrator and author who loves horse-riding, animals and the outdoors.
Creative Director Stephen Bennett spoke to Alison about her work, creative inspiration and growing up in the country.
SB: What was the inspiration that sparked you to write and illustrate your wonderful and successful book My Farm?
AL: This was a really obvious one to do—as soon as I found my feet as a writer and illustrator, I wanted to do [this book] because there was so much material from my childhood.
SB: We particularly loved the sketches and story in My Farm of the cattle muster and droving from the lease on Wilson’s Promontory. Can you share a few of your memories of these times and events with us?
AL: I was actually too little to ever go, so it was all very much a romantic dream for me. We used to wait for Dad and Uncle Jack to come back and they always had amazing stories of, you know, big bullocks they’d found that had been left in the bush for four years that had huge, big horns on them, and so on. There was a very famous time when Taffy, one of our dear old stock horses got bogged in quicksand on the beach.
