Nature and animals inspire me. As do people and music. I love looking at other peoples illustrations and illustrators of yester years. I love books and talking books. Theatre and dance humans are amazing

Lisa Stewart has taken some of her very precious time to join us today for Talking to Somebody. Many thanks Lisa, I am thinking of you and your family.

Author Lesley Gibbes and publisher, Ana Vivas (Scholastic) were first-up, chatting about the highly successful picture book, ‘Little Bear’s First Sleep’. This is a gentle bedtime story about a bear cub embarking on his first long winter sleep.

This divine image by Lisa Stewart was the first I allocated to a month in An Illustrated Year 2013 As soon as Lisa sent me ‘Koala’, I knew that it belonged in September, Save the Koala Month.

Today I'm featuring the touching, lively and beautiful work of Lisa Stewart, illustrator and musician. Lisa's illustrated seven books, including five picture books and two illustrated books. And I'm thrilled to say that we are collaborating on an illustrated story together, to be published later this year.

Hello I'm Lisa and this is what you can see behind my studio door.

Today we're interrupting illustrator Lisa Stewart in her light-filled home studio to chat about the delightfully soft and textured illustrations she created for the must-have new picture book for parents and grandparents, Bushland Lullaby, by author Sally Odgers.