The Super Greens’
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Blaire Simpson |
Tiny House Super Series Book One
Ted has a problem. He has too much stuff and too much space. Luckily the Super Greens are here to save the day!
Join Bernie the bilby, Emily the echidna, Pat the platypus and Katy the koala as they work as a team to design and build an eco-friendly tiny house for Ted.
About Tiny Footprint
Tiny Footprint was created in 2017 after two close work colleagues were inspired by a TV series on tiny homes. Within the hour a mutual dream turned into a plan to build their first tiny house for Chris! They are two women who have worked on solutions for complex business problems and have both dreamt of turning their energies to something more personal.
Combining experience in designing and building houses, project management and a network of family and friends in the building trade they are in a perfect place to bring tiny dreams into reality. Chris and Ferne’s passion for loving life, living tiny to its fullest and caring for the environment and helping others achieve their dreams using the principles of living tiny are driving them on this journey. They decided to launch a book about tiny house building and living concepts for children to explain how tiny living can be beneficial in many ways. With ‘Nanny’ Blaire’s experience in childhood education and development we hope to give children an understanding of topics including sustainability, the environment, minimalism, reducing your environmental footprint, building and interpersonal skills in what we hope will be a series of books based around at set of charming Australian characters.
Website: www.tinyfootprint.com.au
Instagram: @tinyhouseobsession
Facebook: Tiny Footprint
About the Author
Blaire Simpson - Writer
Blaire Simpson grew up in Diamond Creek, Victoria and is qualified in primary school and early childhood education. She worked in education for six years, with a varied demographic of children from four to six years old. She has a passion for engaging with children and has read hundreds of stories to children during her time as a teacher. She has been working for the one family as a nanny since 2013 which has also enabled her to travel overseas, often interacting and reading stories with young children new to English.
Blaire and Bunji, have known each other since they were 12 years old and they have enjoyed the opportunity to work together and combine their knowledge and skills to write and illustrate this story together.
Blaire shares her work as a nanny with working with Ferne and Chris at Tiny Footprint, a tiny house building company. This presented Blaire with the opportunity to write a series of children’s stories based around the themes common in the tiny house movement. With Blaire’s understanding of engaging children, Bunji’s artistic skills and Tiny Footprint’s love of encouraging a smaller footprint on the earth, their vision is to engage little people in living more sustainably.
About the Illustrator
Bunji Spillard - Illustrator
Bunji Spillard is a Melbourne based indigenous artist who is a carpenter by trade. She has learned her art skills from the amazing elders in her life and utilizes those teachings to fuel her paintings and drawings. She also enjoys working with wood and expressing her artistic talents through carving.
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