I’ve just finished a wonderful few weeks of classroom and library visits for CBCA Book Week (2024) and am riding high on the adrenalin! I’ve genuinely enjoyed so many candid, joyous and insightful conversations with so many kids and their educators from ELC to Prep – Yr 6. It was certainly a highlight to be able to share our new picture book, This Is My Happy Place and see their enthusiastic responses, which warmed my heart. I loved hearing how the kids connected with the ‘happy places’ in our book, and I enjoyed sharing with them that I often have discussions with my own children about their ‘happy places’.

I’ve put together the following one-page discussion guide as a brief summary of what I shared with the students and their educators, in the hope that it may be useful for many other people too.