What Colour is the Sea?

Gorgeously illustrated throughout with Australian animals, What Colour is the Sea? is about a koala who asks one question but gets lots of different answers. When Koala sets out to find the right answer, she discovers three things - a question can have more than one correct answer, what people believe is based on experience and sometimes you have to look closer at things to discover the truth. Author and illustrator Katie Stewart was once a teacher and a school librarian and she has always felt that children learn far better when they discover things for themselves, rather than being told.

About the Author

Katie Stewart is an author and illustrator. Born in the north of England, she came to Australia at the age of nine. She started her working life as an archaeologist and ethnohistorian, went on to teaching and then to being a mother. She later worked in a school library, but her lifelong dream was to be what she is now. She is married to a farmer, has three children and lives north of Northam, where her love of animals means she has a lot of pets and takes lots of nature photos. In her spare time, she tries to play the harp or wanders the countryside with a metal detector amusing the neighbours and occasionally finding an interesting piece of history.