About the author

Marnie Atwell

<p><span style="font-family:garamond,serif; font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%"><font color="#000000">&nbsp;&nbsp; I&nbsp;am an Australian author who lives in South-East QLD with my husband and two children.</font></span></p><p></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt;"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif; font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%"><font color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></span><span style="font-family:garamond,serif; font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%"><font color="#000000">I&nbsp;love reading, writing, playing the keyboard and anything&nbsp;from the fantasy genre.&nbsp;The creative streak that runs through my psyche&nbsp;has entertained my family on many occasions. I love regaling them with&nbsp;stories from my dream world. </font></span></p><p></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt;"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif; font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%"><font color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></span><span style="font-family:garamond,serif; font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%"><font color="#000000">I have spent many years as a teacher aide helping underprivileged students with basic numeracy and literacy skills. It is through my work at&nbsp;our local high school that&nbsp;I realised there are a lot of youth who are unable to read to an appropriate level.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt;"></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 8.5pt;"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif; font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%"><font color="#000000">This newfound knowledge encouraged me to believe that some of the stories&nbsp;I shared with&nbsp;my family might be interesting enough to encourage some of these students to begin the journey as a reader.&nbsp;It is my hope that these students&nbsp;are able to overcome their difficulties with language and&nbsp;&nbsp;become life-long readers.</font></span></p><p></p>