Description
Georgette Noellat was born in Australia in 1951. She was schooled at Genazzano Convent and educated at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, and later, in the Faculty of Law, attaining degrees in both disciplines.Although Georgette was a fluent reader by the age of four, she could not be enticed to read the usual books written for children about fairies, witches, talking rabbits, and the escapades of teddy bears, which her local library bus had on offer for children her age. Her brain functioned in a different way from other children. She only wanted to learn facts about the natural world, and relied on her observations of animals around her to help her appreciate their unique differences.
Throughout her life as a teacher, lawyer, farmer and author, Georgette witnessed the benefit of music in the development of neurodiverse students who felt safe in the solitude and repetition which music provided. Her lessons combined a knowledge of sound with the language of the creatures familiar to her students.
The stories in this book give the child, reading or being read to, the opportunity to absorb each animal’s point of view as they share their thoughts with those willing to listen.
