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Lucy is a writer, teacher and children’s librarian with a lifelong passion for good stories.
Living on the NSW South Coast with her young family and a naughty groodle, Lucy can be found collaborating on writing projects, managing creative film workshops, or getting her Dewey Decimal on in the local primary school library.
Lucy has been known as ‘Loopy’ for a long time. Loopy Media used to be her freelance business name but now it’s just a space to talk about words, books and other favourite things.
Picture book shortlisted!
Lucy is very excited that her years-long collaboration with local indigenous elder, Aunty Ruth Simms, AM, has been nominated for the Australian Speech Pathology Book of the Year awards in 2026.
Published by Magabala Books, Muttonfish Magic is a children’s picture book that sings the story of young Ruth’s childhood in La Perouse, where thousand-year-old culture and language collides with modern storytelling and the breath-taking artwork of Dharug illustrator Jasmine Seymour.
“When I first met Aunty Ruth, she was the Aboriginal Education Officer at my local primary school and told the most beautiful stories of going fishing with her mother in Botany Bay, joining indigenous rights marches with her father, or learning cultural shellwork or weaving with her Aunties,” Lucy explains.
“Aunty’s memories are stories from a poignant time in Australia’s history, and we wanted to capture the joy with which she remembered them in writing, with a view to reading them aloud to children.”
In an early review published on Books+Publishing, the book was described as “a special picturebook worthy of critical acclaim and wide educational use”. We are pretty stoked with this!
Hope you love it too.
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Buy a copy of Muttonfish Magic direct from publisher Magabala Books using the link below. Or find it at your local good bookseller.
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