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    Margaret Connolly has been a literary agent for more than twenty years, after giving up a career as a lawyer in the mid-1980s.

    She set up her own business in 1992, and since then has developed a client list which resembles a roll-call of Australia's finest novelists, poets, dramatists, non-fiction authors, film-makers, children's writers and illustrators.

    She works from home, on a desk which is covered with papers and one very useful computer.

    The "Associates" in her company's title consist of her husband, three children and a dog named Arthur.




    • Stephen Michael King

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    Five stars for Piglet

    Sunday, June 28th, 2009

    Margaret Hamilton awards five stars to Piglet and Granny the July issue of Bookseller & Publisher. There is no better combination in picture books for young children than the award-winning team of Margaret Wild and Stephen Michael King. Previous books Piglet and Mama and Piglet and Papa are already firm favourites, so this third book [...]

    Kirkus reviews Stephen Michael King’s Leaf

    Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

    Stephen Michael King’s wonderful picture book, Leaf, will shortly be published in the USA by Roaring Brook Press. Here’s a good first review from Kirkus. A curious, curiously subversive and very pretty wordless Australian import. A mop-headed child faces a momlike figure with scissors in her hands — definitely time for a haircut. The child, [...]

    Stephen Michael King: Never Ever Before

    Monday, February 9th, 2009

    Stephen Michael King’s new picture book, Never Ever Before, which Scholastic Australia will publish in July 2009. In the drifting, swirling land of small, Big is born. Big stands solid, strong and predictable, until the day a breeze bigger than ever before begins to blow… This is a story that celebrates the individual. Objects interact, [...]

    Work in progress: Never Ever Before

    Thursday, December 11th, 2008

    An illustration from Stephen Michael King’s new picture book, Never Ever Before, which is to be published by Scholastic Australia in the second half of 2009.

    Stephen Michael King interview

    Friday, November 7th, 2008

    Stephen Michael King is interviewed by Paula Perim, for the Brazilian children’s magazine, Crescer. 1. All your books and your characters have a lot of freedom. The way they live and the way we see them (my daughter is saying it depends on who sees and I agree, anyway…). Do you think that freedom is [...]

    The Pocket Dogs go on holiday

    Thursday, September 25th, 2008

    The Pocket Dogs go on Holiday is the new picture book written by Margaret Wild and illustrated by Stephen Michael King, and is to be published by Omnibus Books in October. It is a sequel to the internationally successful The Pocket Dogs.          

    Stephen Michael King: The ABC Book of Lullabies

    Friday, September 19th, 2008

    Stephen Michael King’s illustration of Golden Slumbers, for The ABC Book of Lullabies, to be published October, 2008.

    Stephen Michael King: 5-star review for Leaf

    Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

    The first review of the new picture book by Stephen Michael King, Leaf, which is published in Australia by Scholastic Press. US rights have just been bought by Neal Porter of Roaring Brook Press.

    Stephen Michael King: Work in progress

    Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

    More work in progress from Stephen Michael King, this time some images from Pocket Dogs go on Holiday, written by Margaret Wild, to be published by Omnibus Books October 2008.

    Stephen Michael King: Leaf

    Thursday, December 13th, 2007

    The dust jacket for Stephen Michael King’s Leaf, which will be published by Scholastic Press Australia next May.

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