Illustrator and Designer of A Construction of Cranes

Caitlin Ziegler writes, draws, cuts, pastes and can fold a paper crane. She was born in Tasmania, jumping the ditch early to live and work in Melbourne. Caitlin uses a range of both traditional and digital illustration and collage techniques –  blueprints found in a skip made their way into the book A Construction of Cranes which she created with Margaret Don’t get her to water your plants.

See the artist at work here:

caitlinziegler.com

IG: @caitlinziegler 

In the early 2000s at the State Library of Western Australia, specialist children’s librarians Sue North and Nola Allen worked together to scope and devise a program that would ensure that every baby born in Western Australia would receive the gift of a book and an invitation to join their local library. The multi-award-winning Better Beginnings Family Literacy Program began.  

It’s impossible to imagine Better Beginnings without Baby Ways. This small board book is a huge part of the success of the program. At the time of its development and publication, which Nola led, there were a handful of photographic books showing the diversity of Australian babies. Baby Ways was an instant hit with families from Karratha to Kojonup, and it is specifically mentioned by parents in published ECU research.  I was proud to work with Nola on the text for this wonderful and much-loved book.Since leaving SLWA, Nola’s book making journey has continued with community publishing projects in local governments throughout Perth. Her significant design talents are devoted to honouring the babies, children and families who are featured in these books at play and in the library.  She has also co-authored and designed a bilingual Maori-English board book (Babies are Brave) which I project-managed for Canterbury district’s library in New Zealand.