Hazel Edwards

A fascinating personal account of walking solo all 2,184 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from Atlanta Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine, which took five months and two pairs of boots

A memoir is only a slice of a life. This &apos;questory&apos; (quest + history) covers more than the beloved cake-eating hippo. &apos;Not Just a Piece of Cake&apos; is a candid memoir of the realistic process of the process of creativity, via anecdotes. &apos;Anecdultery&apos; is a Hazel original term for story.<br /> <br />Hazel Edwards takes the reader behind the books. She shares the humour of a diverse work style and family life behind the beloved characters like the cake-eating...

Record travel experiences in ways others will want to read, for family, blog or professional audiences.<br /> <br />Revised digital edition due to demand.<br /> <br />Tips on using anecdotes, titles, structuring, apt viewpoints and creating a sense of place. Interviewing and research skills. Activities can be used by professional writing courses. Sample published articles with tips on crafting for that audience.

On the day of Gran&apos;s funeral, teenager Zoe finds Gran&apos;s &apos;not to be opened until after my death&apos; package. So she opens it.<br /> <br />Turns out, Gran was not just Madga, she had other names too. And other lives.<br /> <br />Together with her hockey-nerd mate Luke, Zoe goes on a digital journey of discovery to find out who her Gran really was.

If you&apos;re the kind of person who never wins anything, and then you win a giraffe, you&apos;ve got a problem.<br /> <br />Of course, if you&apos;re a part-time spy like Art, you&apos;re ace at solving problems.<br /> <br />But keeping the news of the giraffe from his Mum isn&apos;t the only thing on Art&apos;s mind.<br /> <br />His friend India thinks she&apos;s uncovered a dog-snatching scam, and Art agrees that if she helps him hide his giraffe,...

Trekking with their eco-photographer parents, Amy and Christopher suspect a thief on New Zealand&apos;s famous Milford Track.<br /> <br />Is it Ms Tree, the Freedom Walker? Other suspects include a keen golfer, a rugby international and Zoe, the guide. When a mischievous kea bird steals from the twins, they change their minds. Dr Al, the celebrity explorer is being filmed on the Track, by their parents. Could he be involved in illegal kea or nugget smuggling?<br /> <br...

Slipper orchid&apos; was the clue. But is it a flower, a pirated cassette or a group of smugglers?<br /> <br />Pirated cassettes, tiger bones for traditional Chinese medicine, and the T-shirted gnome interest the sleuths Amy and Christopher as they leave Singapore&apos;s Changi Airport.<br /> <br />Along the way, they discover some idea pirates and solve a mystery.

When their Tokyo plane is grounded in Sydney, due to cabin mist, the Frequent Flyer Twins become involved in an oriental antique mystery. What is being artnapped? Why are security guards watching the Rembrandt? And why is the dealer so interested in Amy&apos;s phone card collection?<br /> <br />There&apos;s a mix up with photos. What has happened to photographs of the newly married Japanese wedding tourist group? What about Tess, the art student who is working her way around the...

Alone in the radio station studio, &apos;graveyard shift&apos; presenter Lily is being stalked.<br /> <br />The stalker is obsessive, electronically skilled and devious. Lily copes with hate mail and a wreath and even briefly enjoys the celebrity status of having a stalker. But Lily confronts her fears and challenges the stalker in a surprise ending.

It was the Grand Final on Saturday. Carrot the Parrot was the Coach for the Birds&apos; team. But he&apos;d lost his voice. Sleuth Astrid had to find it, in time for the Grand Final because the team needed the Voice of the Coach. Was the Voice captured in the TV &apos;Footy&apos; studio? Lost down his throat? Was a Voice Coach any use? What about the Speakeasy? Or the Voice-over on the TV Footy panel or on Talk-back? And then there&apos;s the Bird Wedding of the Year. Carrot was supposed to be...

Sleuth Astrid is a hi-tech chook, who rides a Harley, plays e-games and finds lost things.<br /> <br />The Magician has lost his sense of humour. Astrid must find that before the 3pm show. Luckily, Astrid is also a mind-reading chook.

From his hot air balloon flight over the zoo, sleuth Art sees something suspicious that later helps him solve a mystery.<br /> <br />As winner of talkback radio&apos;s &apos;Going Up&apos; competition, quiz whiz Art shares the prize of a hot air balloon flight with mates India and Mars Bar. It&apos;s India&apos;s birthday soon and Art hasn&apos;t bought a present. Mars Bar comes regardless.<br /> <br />The prize must be used at 4.30am next morning, but 9.am sharp on...

Art the part-time spy is at it again, and this time he&apos;s got birds on the brain.<br /> <br />Mr Snippet&apos;s Crested Featherfoot Fantail is missing. It&apos;s his best bird and unless it&apos;s found, his wedding birds-for-hire service might go out of business.<br /> <br />Art loves to be faced with a problem and he sets out to catch the thief, with help from his friend India (when she&apos;s not collecting dog droppings for her science experiment) and, as usual,...

On Tournament Day, teams solve problems. Art the part-time spy doesn&apos;t want to take part. He&apos;s not keen on reading and he can&apos;t spell TOURNAMENT, but he&apos;s good at solving problems. His friend India makes him join her Tournament of Minds team. They get ready to present their problem. But then thieves try to steal secrets from the university. With India&apos;s help, Art solves an unexpected mystery. Tournament of Minds is where problems are solved, and Art is a great problem…...

Amy and Christopher, the Frequent Flyer Twins, are on their way from Singapore to Cairns, where the International Games are going to be held. But more than one lot of games are being played!<br /> <br />Amy and Christopher have heard that someone is smuggling steroids in on their flight. All passengers are suspects. So are the airline staff.<br /> <br />Something doesn&apos;t add up, but what is it? The Frequent Flyer Twins are just the people to find out.

Amy and Christopher are twins AND international sleuths. Their eco-photographer parents travel often. So the twins fly to meet them.<br /> <br />Christopher loves drawing. He draws people and places. And often he notices unusual clues.<br /> <br />Amy reads and thinks quickly. She also collects coins, stamps, stickers, phone cards and clues.<br /> <br />Together they solve mysteries in the air and at international airports.