David C Murphy Illustration & Imaginings

 

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NEWS My new picture book “Snowy’s Christmas” has just been published by Random House in Australia and New Zealand. I had great fun illustrating the story which was written by my very talented sister-in-law Sally Murphy. Check out the virtual book launch HERE. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Snowy and I headed out to Dalton’s Books in Canberra for a book signing and reading. It all went very well. The book was a great hit and the shop sold all its copies of Snowy’s Christmas within an hour and a half. I also ate too many lamingtons. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Snowy and I were recently interviewed by ABC Local Radio Canberra (AM666). You can listen to the interview HERE. This was Snowy’s first outing. Everybody loved him wanted to give him a pat. BLOG Tour The Snowy’s Christmas Tour is on. Sally and I will be talking about Snowy and the process of writing and illustrating a children’s book at a variety of BLOG’s hosted by some of Australia’s best children’s book writers and commentators. Here are the dates and locations of the tour - check it out; Week One: 4 October Deescribe Writing Blog Week Two: 11 October Write and Read With Dale Week three: 18 October Alphabet Soup Blog Week Four: 25 October Let’s Have Words Week Five: 1 November Sally Murphy’s Writing for Children Blog Week Six: 8 November Aussiereviews Blog Week Seven: 15 November Samantha Hughes’ Blog Week Eight: 22 November Robyn Opie’s Writing Children’s Books Blog Week Nine: 29 November Stories are Light Week Ten: 6 December The Aussie Christmas Blog Week Eleven: 13 December Tales I Tell http://www.randomhouse.com.auhttp://www.sallymurphy.nethttp://aussiechristmas.wordpress.com/http://www.daltons.com.au/Daltons/http://blogs.abc.net.au/canberra/2009/10/illustrator-david-murphy-and-snowys-christmas.html?program=canberra_drivehttp://deescribewriting.wordpress.com/http://orangedale.livejournal.com/http://soupblog.wordpress.com/http://letshavewords.blogspot.com/2009/10/snowys-christmas.htmlhttp://www.sallymurphy.blogspot.com/http://www.sallymurphy.blogspot.com/http://aussiereviews.blogspot.com/http://samantha-hughes.blogspot.com/http://www.robynopie.blogspot.com/http://www.robynopie.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/Stories%20are%20Lighthttp://aussiechristmas.wordpress.com/http://belka37.blogspot.com/shapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6shapeimage_1_link_7shapeimage_1_link_8shapeimage_1_link_9shapeimage_1_link_10shapeimage_1_link_11shapeimage_1_link_12shapeimage_1_link_13shapeimage_1_link_14shapeimage_1_link_15shapeimage_1_link_16shapeimage_1_link_17