Margaret Dugdale

 

 

Margaret loves telling stories. She writes for small children, always amazed at their love of books and capacity for imagination and whimsy. She has lived and worked with children most of her adult life.

Margaret has three strands of her professional life: as a mother and infant psychotherapist in the public sector in Victoria Australia, as an adult educator at the University of Adelaide and  RMIT Melbourne and running her own consultancy in environmental planning, specialising throughout Australia in community engagement and conflict resolution in water resources management.

She has a deep understanding of the internal world of the infant, in 2013 winning the The Australian Association for Infant Mental Health’s Anne Morgan Prize for her story, ’Love in a Lunch Box’.

Margaret has a great love of music, is sad that she never learnt to play an instrument as a child, but has had great fun taking her grandchildren on many musical adventures.

This is Margaret’s first book and there are many more to come! The next is rumoured to be ‘Oomski and Yeow’.