The Spotty Dotty Lady

SHORTLISTED – 2013 Speech Pathology of Australia Book of the Year Awards (Indigenous Children category)

Have fun with Maggie and her animal friends. One of the first four books in a series of levelled readers designed to provide young Indigenous and non-Indigenous children with engaging, enjoyable and meaningful experiences with print that will support their reading skills and their desire to read.

About the Author

Nola Turner-Jensen is a Wiradjuri woman from the river country in Central West NSW. Nola is proud of her Aboriginal background as well as the Irish and English heritage from her fathers side.

Nola and her family have settled North of Brisbane in Qld for the last 20 years, where she studied and became an active social worker, working with Indigenous youth. Nola is married and mother to 5 children and established the first Indigenous focused Children's company in Australia just five years ago, and is still the only company of its type in Queensland.

In that time Nola has produced & designed a wide selection of Indigenous focused educational resources and toys.

Today Nola's interests lie within the bush food and associated products industries, developing Indigenous educational resources and is at present working on several new Indigenous adventure stories.