ABOUT SBN & THE AUTHOR, VIARNNE MISCHON
SBN Publishing is a part of the School Broadcasting Network Inc
The School Broadcasting Network is an Australian charity and multi-award-winning youth media network that empowers young people to communicate their ideas, innovations and commitments for sharing culture and creating a regenerative and equitable future – via a range of mediums, especially radio. SBN owns & operates Australia’s first and largest online children’s radio station ‘Funky Kids Radio’ and ‘SwitchOn Radio’ podcast station.
The School Broadcasting Network is deeply honoured to have Dr Jane Goodall DBE as our charity’s International Patron.
About the Author
Viarnne Mischon is a multi-award-winning radio & podcast producer, bestselling novelist, and the founder/executive producer of the School Broadcasting Network Inc – an Australian charity dedicated to giving young people a global voice in creating the world we all wish to live in. Viarnne’s audio stories for children include ‘An Antechinus in the Attic’, ‘There is a Unicorn in My Garden’, ‘Goldilocks and the Three Koalas’ and ‘Page 9’, as well as ‘Fred the Freight Train’, which she co-wrote with Virginia Wise.
How it all began…
“My father was a passionate conservationist and brilliant storyteller, and when I was a child, I would listen with both fascination and considerable concern to his story of ‘Percy the Goldfish’. Poor Percy was left somewhat abandoned in an algae-filled aquarium and the tale of this little goldfish nearly suffocating in his own eutrophying glass bowl taught me at a very early age the importance of a healthy and balanced ecosystem for all living things to survive and thrive.
It was then, before I had even started kindergarten, that I decided one day I too would write stories to inspire children to care for our beautiful planet and all the amazing creatures of our wonderful world – just like my father had done for me. I started to write ‘An Antechinus in the Attic’ for my own children when they were toddlers, though the story was never finished amidst the life of a busy family. Then when Google contacted SBN in 2018 about producing an anthology of bespoke Australian audio stories for children for the Google Home’s Tell Me a Story platform in Australia, ‘An Antechinus in the Attic’ sprang out of a long hibernation!”
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You can listen to Viarnne’s audio stories and the whole anthology of 20 stories for children HERE