After training as a teacher, Deb travelled to Africa, where she was trapped in a desert sandstorm, harassed by monkeys and thrown in jail twice. She trained as a teacher before becoming writer/producer of a national children's TV show at Network TEN. She's since written 30 internationally published and awarded books, including the Max Remy series, her climate change trilogy, Grimsdon, New City and Final Storm and The Stupendously Spectacular Spelling Bee . Her CBCA Notable, The Book of Wondrous Possibilities , is about the power of books to save us when we feel lost. Her latest books are, The Kindness Project , a verse novel about how even the smallest act of kindness can change the world and her picture book, No More Room in the Bed . www.deborahabela.com.