From beautifully told tales for children to her adult fiction, find out more about Leigh-Michel’s work.
From beautifully told tales for children to her adult fiction, find out more about Leigh-Michel’s work.
“Animals teach us.
Growing up in the country, I learnt lifelong lessons and the power of love. These often-profound experiences were not lost on me when raising my own family, menagerie in tow.
I create stories that normalise everyday challenges experienced during childhood, to teach our children and ourselves, to become better.”
"These stories have great narration, beautiful imagery and involve the reader from the opening sentences. I particularly liked the morals in the stories, sprinkled with adventure and humour. There’s pathos and lessons here which are sometimes hard to learn, but delivered honestly and are soundly written."
"Leigh-Michel eloquently captures the beautiful bond between children and their pets in her wonderful series of children’s books. She vividly explores the ups and downs of life with a naughty sheepdog puppy in Magic Mojo and follows two generations of a rabbit family in Opal’s Opus and Stella & Stanley. Any animal-loving child will delight in these stories."
"Leigh-Michel has written four beautiful and sensitive stories about the love we have for our pets. Every child will be able to walk in the shoes of the narrator as they are taken on a gentle descriptive journey of how our lives are so entwined with the animals we love."
"I love Opal's Opus - it made me shed a tear, and the sentence structure reminded me of Hemingway.
I also like your short story ‘Displaced’ and how you slowly unwrap the characters, making me eager to find out what happens next."
"This is a heart-warming story about a girl's love for her best friend Opal. The story deals with sensitive issues in a gentle and subtle way which are age appropriate.
Lovely images are created through your descriptions, language features and humour. A perfect teaching resource, loaded with topics that would resonate with young students.