Welcome to Hazel's website
Celebrate the cake-eating Hippo's 30th anniversary!
Only three sleeps to go, and then it's my birthday.
There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake. It's his birthday, too.
We are going to have our party together. A jungle party!
Hip, hip, hooray! Thirty years on, everybody's favourite cake-eating hippo continues to delight fans all over the world.
Join in the fun as he celebrates his birthday in this brand-new, special-edition book!
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Hazel Edwards is a Melbourne based author who writes books and scripts for children and adults. Picture book 'There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake' is her best known title which has been continually in print for 30 years and adapted for stage, radio, video and puppetry as well as widely translated. Currently Pocket Bonfire Productions is filming. Read more about Hazel.
Hazel Edwards was nominated for the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Children's Literature Award which is the world's largest prize for children's and young adult literature. Read the Media Release.
Hazel has several new books out in 2010
'There's A Hippopotamus On Our Roof Eating Cake' short film coming early 2010
The short film adaption of the 1979 Picture Book - see more at www.pocketbonfire.com
Pocket Bonfire Productions Hippo film stars Angus Sampson (Where The Wild Things Are), Bridie Carter (McLeod's Daughters), Portia Bradley (My Year Without Sex) and Terry Camilleri (The Truman Show). 15min, and features animatronics/puppetry by the creators of the worldwide arena spectacular Walking With Dinosaurs, Creature Technology Company.
And so it's all live-action, set in 1979, and created not only for children, but for the adult fans who grew up with the book'
"Being an author means the opportunity to live more intensively by participant observation in places like Antarctic expeditions, but also by using imagination and asking 'What if?' as in the creation of the cake-eating hippo. Sometimes books travel even further than the author, into the minds and actions of readers"
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