Sandra Bennet

Sandra Bennett has been writing children's stories for as long as she can remember. Right from her childhood in the early 1970's Sandra used her imagination to develop adventure stories from where she lived in the southern suburbs of Sydney, to now where she lives with her family on a tranquil little property just outside of Canberra. As a little girl she always dreamed of becoming a teacher and sharing her stories with the children in her classes to encourage and improve literacy skills. Sandra believes Literacy skills are the building blocks to all further education. Once you can read you can learn anything and grow to become whatever your dreams desire.

Sandra enjoys writing children's stories that will entice even the most reluctant reader to pick up a book and laugh so much they will not want to put it down. Her children's books are for ages 4-10, early readers, reluctant reader and ESL students. They are perfect to read aloud at home with the entire family.

Her first book Gingerbread Aliens has achieved that objective and been selected for use in the 2013 Australian National Eisteddfod under 10 years Championship Division of Speech and Drama.

Sandra has taken not only her 25 years of experience as a classroom teacher but also as a mum to three boys and now writes a weekly blog titled Raising Awesome Readers, it can be found at http://gingerbreadaliens.blogspot.com.au/ or on her website http://sandrabennettauthor.com/

Gingerbread Aliens is the first in a series of five planned books. Book 2 Alien Shenanigans should be released later this year.