'Rain May and Captain Daniel' was published in 2002.

Rain May and her mum escape their old inner-city life for a dream house in the country. But there are more than a few suprises in store- like discovering a platypus or the fun of fridge poetry and phenomenally bright eleven-year-old, Captain Daniel, who lives next door.
Together these unlikely friends adventure where no one has gone before.

 

The idea for Rain May and Captain Daniel was triggered by reading the poetry of e e cummings. I thought what a good name 'Rain' would be for a particular kind of girl. That led me to wonder about her life - and I decided she'd be a Brunswick girl and have to move to the country where Rain wouldn't be such a good name, perhaps.

Clarkson in the book is actually Trentham, where my mother used to live. Rain and Maggie move into my mother's old house.

The fridge poems in the book were created by a magnetic poetry kit - with no cheating!

Have a go at writing your own fridge poetry, and send it in to Catherine through the Visitor's Book, where it might just get published!