Wombat's West Words Feature – Renée Treml

Renée Treml

Just wanted to share a link to WestWords where I recently wrote a guest blog post about the creation of One Very Tired Wombat. I cover just about everything related to creating the book, starting from my inspiration to the writing and illustrating process.

At the bottom of the post are details about how to win a copy for yourself or school library. All you need to do is a leave a comment on the WestWords website about what keeps you up at night!

Bunny Ideas: The Super Adventures of Ollie and Bea

Otter-ly Ridiculous: The Super Adventures of Ollie and Bea

Sherlock Bones and the Art and Science Alliance

Renée has written and illustrated seven picture books including award-winning Once I Heard a Little Wombat, and Wombat Big, Puggle Small.

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Seriously, is September too early for Christmas mu

Seriously, is September too early for Christmas music? I’d put my tree up in October if I could (family objections)… I settle for first weekend of November.

Fine tuning my Christmas koala. These images won’t be re-appearing until Christmas 2024.

#christmas #christmaskoala #koalasofinstagram #koala

Can’t quite bring myself to turn on the Christma

Can’t quite bring myself to turn on the Christmas music in September, although it would be very fitting for my subjects today…

#koala #koalachristmas

What a great start to my birthday on this gorgeous

What a great start to my birthday on this gorgeous sunny day… a box full of Sherlock Bones in Complex Chinese and trees full of red-tailed black cockatoos.

Thank you @allenandunwin and Commonweath Education and Publishing Company in Taiwan.

#graphicnovel #sherlockbones #blackcockatoo

How fun is it when the school you visit has a resi

How fun is it when the school you visit has a resident (and social) quenda? 💕

TBH I didn’t know what these were until I visited @ksp_writers_centre earlier in the year. They are little marsupials also known as a southern brown bandicoot.

These tantrum drawings are drawn more from my real

These tantrum drawings are drawn more from my real life than I’d like to admit… moving interstate has been so hard. I’ve been missing my friends, community and studio, and slowly trying to build a new one. I’m lucky I had a looming deadline to force me to get the studio up and running!

I’m wrapping up the illustrations for the 8th book in the Super Adventures of Ollie and Bea graphic novels. What a fun series this has been so far. I’m looking forward to exploring new projects (and WA) in the second part of this year.

Goodbye beautiful (and messy) studio! I will miss

Goodbye beautiful (and messy) studio! I will miss you 💕.

I have been pulling out every excuse as to why I cannot possibly start packing my creative space, but today is the day. I’m trying not to think about how long it will be until I find another space and friends and community like I’ve had here in Torquay (and, for the record, I will continue bottling up those emotions for another day).

This has been my refuge for almost five years: I’ve written and illustrated over 500 pages of Sherlock Bones and seven-and-a-half Ollie and Bea books here, I’ve weathered months (and months) in this space with a homeschooling grade 5/6 child, and illustrated so many special picture books sitting in that chair.

I know it’s time to start looking forward to new adventures and friends and community, which I know will be wonderful and amazing too, but right now it’s so hard.

Anyway, starting small. One box at a time. Coming soon to WA.

I’m OTTER-ly thrilled to be a part of the @melbw

I’m OTTER-ly thrilled to be a part of the @melbwritersfest this year. Please join us for the free family events at the State Library on today.

At 10:30am, the legendary Little Lunch team (Mitch Vane and Danny Katz) will be entertaining the crowd with stories and drawings.

At 12pm I’ll be talking about creating pictures that tell stories.

Check out the MWF website for bookings and more information.

Join Kat and I on Friday 12 May at the BWF for a B

Join Kat and I on Friday 12 May at the BWF for a Bird in the Herd story activity. Perfect for your little ones!

I am so excited to be running a graphic novel work

I am so excited to be running a graphic novel workshop at the Altona Library this Saturday! I am prepping to move interstate, so this will be one of my last workshops in Melbourne for a while.

Bookings are essential. Details at the Hobsons Bay Libraries website.

I’m so excited to be a special guest at the Alto

I’m so excited to be a special guest at the Altona Library’s Weekend Story Time on Saturday 1 April.

Thank you, Hobsons Bay City Libraries and librarian extraordinaire Julie Grasso for hosting me.

We’ll have heaps of fun reading, singing and stomping! See you soon.

#storytime

Today was my first full day of my writing fellowsh

Today was my first full day of my writing fellowship at the KSP Writers’ Centre. I feel so lucky to be here!

I spent most of the day muddling my way through Photoshop for the iPad but think/hope tomorrow will be a little smoother. Does anyone else use this on their iPad? It’s missing a few tools that I normally use (hence the muddling), but seems to be working well.

I’ve seen so many red-tailed black cockatoos that I’ve lost count. Here’s a video of four chatty ones I found this morning.

Thinking about covers today for the seventh and ei

Thinking about covers today for the seventh and eighth books in The Super Adventures of Ollie and Bea.
These six are the American editions which look slightly different from the Australian versions.

It’s going to be really hard to select two new background colours!

#ollieandbea #graphicnovelsforkids #graphicnovelseries #graphicnovel #kidscomics #kidsgraphicnovels #kidlit #juniorfiction

A few more of my favourite PUNNY jokes from The Su

A few more of my favourite PUNNY jokes from The Super Adventures of Ollie and Bea.

Two new books available now:
OTTER-ly Ridiculous
BUNNY Ideas

#graphicnovelsforkids #kidsbooks #kidsbookstagram #bookstagram #kidlit #graphicnovelseries #juniorfiction #kidscomics #earlyreader

Look who's popped into The Little Bookroom this we

Look who's popped into The Little Bookroom this week! Signed copies of Otter-ly Ridiculous and Bunny Ideas are now available and it's 'buy one get one free' for any of the six titles in the series.

#ollieandbea #graphicnovelsforkids #kidsbooks #kidsbookstagram #kidscomics #graphicnovel

A few PUNNY sayings from the Ollie and Bea books.

A few PUNNY sayings from the Ollie and Bea books. These 64-page graphic novels are perfect for early and independent readers who love to laugh.

Two new Super Adventures of Ollie and Bea are now available in stores -- keep an eye out for the buy one get one free promotion. What a great way to collect all 6 books in the series!

#graphicnovelsforkids #kidsbooks #kidsbookstagram #kidlit #graphicnovelseries #juniorfiction #kidscomics

I felt like I earned a badge today… and oddly en

I felt like I earned a badge today… and oddly enough, no one makes an “I was discharged from the breast cancer program today” badge. So here I am with my homemade badge. Feels a little silly, but I’ve been waiting 11 years to wear it.

Thanks to the Peter Mac and Mater Hospitals for all their amazing care.💕

As an aside note, I promise no more selfies.

Two new Super Adventures of Ollie and Bea are avai

Two new Super Adventures of Ollie and Bea are available in Australia today!

Otter-ly Ridiculous and Bunny Ideas are silly yet kind graphic novels perfect for new and independent readers aged 4-7.

#ollieandbea #graphicnovelsforkids #graphicnovel #kidlit #kidsgraphicnovels #juniorfiction #kidsbookseries #bookstagram #kidscomics #childrensbooks

Such a fun idea for gifting — wrap your wine in

Such a fun idea for gifting — wrap your wine in a tea towel!

Last day for gorgeous locally made art and ceramic

Last day for gorgeous locally made art and ceramics! Pop-in today until 4pm at 14 Lowtide Drive, Torquay, Victoria.

#surfcoast #surfcoastcreatives #surfcoastartist #surfcoastart #torquay #torquaybeach

Welcome to our pop-up studio sale! Karen Steenberg

Welcome to our pop-up studio sale! Karen Steenbergen Ceramics and I will be open Saturday and Sunday from 10-4pm. We’re at 14 Lowtide Drive, Torquay.

Heaps of samples, seconds and market specials (and cake!).

#surfcoast #surfcoastcreatives #surfcoastmarkets

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