The Place With No Name by Matt Zurbo   There’s a place you can go once you’re in bed. (Black page.) First the lights have to be out. (Black page.) Then, you have to whisper, three times, so soft you can’t tell if you're awake or asleep; “Bedtime… bedtime… bedtime…” (Bedtime words on black page.) … Continue reading Day 320: The Place With No Name

Libby Lip's Broad Rimmed Hat by Matt Zurbo   Libby Lip found a hat, with a rim, broad and flat! (Little girl skipping, looking at a sunhat with a 15 foot rim, stuck in branches of a tree.) Sure, it was kind of big, but no sun would shine on her lid! (Girl wearing enormously … Continue reading Day 319: Libby Lip’s Broad Rimmed Hat

Grandpapa by Matt Zurbo   Hi, this is a story about my Grandpapa. (Cute painting, pref watercolour, of baby, nine months old, playing with building blocks.) We live far ‘Up North’. (Mum and Dad and Baby, tropical bush in the background, with rock-filled river. They are putting Baby into a harness that Dad is wearing.) … Continue reading Day 318: Grandpapa

Wombat! by Matt Zurbo   If we had to send someone out into space… (Scientists arguing. Rocket being built behind them. Wombat entering frame.) or some-thing… (Line up of creatures in spacesuits. Monkey, dog, cat, hamster, gorilla, donkey. Naked wombat walking past them all.) I’d send a wombat. (Wombat in space suit.) I just couldn’t … Continue reading Day 317: Wombat!