1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Five Double A Nights with Matthew Pantellas Let's talk kids 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: books much more lighter topic than Christ's and Jess Braithwaite 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: Weather presenter on nine has written her first book with 4 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: a co author. She's co authored a book Whatever the Weather. 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: We're in this together. Jess, Hello, how are you Hi? 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really good. Thank you. Very excited to be 7 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 2: speaking to you on book launch day because I've never 8 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 2: launched a book before, so it's a. 9 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 1: Totally new experience what goes with launching a book. I've 10 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: seen the publicity shots else, so. 11 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 2: We've had a photo shoot. The funnest part is when 12 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 2: you've received the book in the mail for the first time, 13 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 2: because that's like, you know, because you've I've spent three 14 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 2: years working on this with my friend Rebecca, and until 15 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 2: that point, it's just an idea in your head. And 16 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 2: then you get this book in the mail and you're 17 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 2: looking through and just the pictures are just so beautiful, 18 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 2: and it's like a real thing that now exists in 19 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 2: the world, and I think that it will be on 20 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: shelves in bookstores. It just blows my mind. 21 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: Where's the idea come from? Just three years? Is that? 22 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: How long it takes to write a kid's book. 23 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 2: Really, how long it takes, I know, from the idea stays, 24 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 2: through to securing a publisher, through to the illustrations and 25 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 2: then the book get book getting printed. But yeah, look, 26 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 2: I think it's really honestly, I know it sounds corny, 27 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 2: but it really has come from my heart. You know, 28 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,199 Speaker 2: I've been thinking about how much I love my kids, 29 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 2: and I think as a weather presenter, you know, there's 30 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 2: a lot in common really between life and the weather. 31 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 2: You know, both can be predictable and both have ups 32 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 2: and downs. And so it's heart really, it's a book 33 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 2: that tells our little people, our grandkids, our kids, our 34 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 2: nieces and nephews how much we love them, you know, 35 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 2: through all the ups and downs of life, through the sunny, 36 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 2: happy days and the rainy moods and everything in between. 37 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 2: So you know, it came from a place of love, 38 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 2: and I really hope that other families will be able 39 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 2: to enjoy some snuggles and loving special moments with this 40 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 2: book as well. 41 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: Okay, so it is about and I've seen the blurb, 42 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: it's all about making the kids feel special and loves. 43 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: As you say, and you obviously saw a need from 44 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: that with your own kids. 45 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think also I really wanted to spark 46 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,920 Speaker 2: that wonder in terms of nature and the outdoors. And 47 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 2: I'm sorry if you can hear the announcement going in 48 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 2: the background. I'm actually at the airport ready to fly 49 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 2: out to Sidney for a book event tomorrow. But you know, like, 50 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 2: I think the kids really benefit from being outside in 51 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 2: all the different elements in not just the sunny days, 52 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 2: but all of the different types of weather, whether it's 53 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 2: gazing at a rainbow or jumping in the puddles or 54 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 2: playing in the autumn leaves. And I've seen how much 55 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 2: my kids benefit from that, and I did sort of. 56 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 2: I do hope to spark and really embrace that wonder 57 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 2: with other families as well, to get out there and enjoy, 58 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 2: you know, all of the different seasons of life. I 59 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 2: think even as adults, you know, we go through different 60 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 2: seasons in life, and you know, there's joy in all 61 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 2: of the different you know, emotions and different types of weather. 62 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 2: So I hope that that sense of wonder comes through 63 00:02:58,200 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 2: in the book as well. 64 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: How hard was it to find an illustrator to match 65 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: up with. 66 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 2: The words, you know, Yeah, it was surprisingly difficult. I mean, 67 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 2: you know, getting the publisher in the first place, just 68 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 2: to read the manuscripts was you know, it is a 69 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 2: challenge I did. I think in some ways writing the 70 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 2: book was the easy part. Getting a publisher to read 71 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 2: it and come on board was just an absolute joy 72 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 2: with Alan and Unwin, and then they thankfully secured the publisher. 73 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 2: But even then, you know, there were a few different 74 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 2: illustrators who couldn't take on the work because they were 75 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 2: working on different projects. So when we saw the work 76 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 2: of Laura b and it came through as a suggestion, 77 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 2: we were just like, oh, this is an absolute must. 78 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 2: We have to have it, and we have to have 79 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 2: this illustrator because she just paints the you know, the 80 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 2: nature and the seasons, and the whimsy of this guy 81 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 2: was just such a sort of a beautiful, dreamy sense. 82 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 2: Like I said to her, actually, I want to live 83 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 2: inside your illustrations because they're just so beautiful. 84 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: And the idea is obviously as you're reading the book, 85 00:03:58,280 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: you've got a little one on your lap, or next 86 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: year you're going through the book together. It's it's either 87 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: you know, bedtime reading or filling half an hour during 88 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: the day. 89 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it, and there's lots of little moments in 90 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 2: the book for lovely interactions with the little ones, you know. 91 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 2: There's sound you can make the sound of the wushing 92 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 2: wind and the rumbling thunder and the rain drops tumbling, 93 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 2: and there's lots of little fun moments in there for families. 94 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 2: And there's actually even because I couldn't resist because I'm 95 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 2: also a musician, there's also a lullaby that follows the 96 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 2: words of the book, so you can listen along as 97 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 2: well and let the melody kind of like to say, 98 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 2: let the melody rack around you like a soft blanket 99 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 2: on a rainy day. 100 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: Chess. Very poetic. That's nice. So okay, you've put it 101 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: to music as well as it were, and gee that 102 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: I can see why three and a half years. 103 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, well it really is that I feel like 104 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 2: it's the embodiment of my life's work. Without wanting to 105 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 2: sound too dramatic about it, but it really is because 106 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 2: it involves my children, my new my my family and 107 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 2: my passion for writing, and now South Australians as well. 108 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 2: To be able to pick it up and take it 109 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 2: home into their family, is it just I couldn't be prouder. 110 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, fantastic, all right. So it's available what pretty much everywhere, Dimmicks, 111 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 1: big w You've been. 112 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 2: Told to say, all good bookstores, all right, whatever that means. 113 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so just try any bookstore now. It's called 114 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: whatever the Weather. We're in it together. It's kind of 115 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: a big kid's book, you know, for little kids. So 116 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: they're about thirty centiments. Yeah, I'm sure, and that's you know, 117 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: that's part of the fun of reading to little kids. 118 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: It is absolutely yeah, mine are a bit older than 119 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: that these days. But your yours are still fairly little, 120 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 1: aren't They Probably a little bit older than this now, 121 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: even well. 122 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 2: My little girl's for right in the pocket. She loves 123 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 2: making the sound. I actually caught her a couple of 124 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,239 Speaker 2: nights ago when the storms came through. She was sitting 125 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 2: out on the back deck watching the storms and singing 126 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 2: the part of the lullaby about the rumbling thunder, And 127 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 2: honestly I saw that I had tears in my eyes, 128 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,359 Speaker 2: and I thought, Wow, my work here is done. The 129 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 2: message has been received. 130 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: So what's next? Es another book? You got a sequel 131 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: in mind? What's going to happen? 132 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 2: You know? It's funny because now that I've started sort 133 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 2: of thinking of these ideas. I can't stop. So, yeah, 134 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 2: I do have my other ideas for books and little 135 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 2: weather characters and things. So I guess I should try 136 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 2: to slow down and just do one thing at a time. 137 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 2: But yeah, there's always something sort of ticking away in 138 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 2: the back of my head, that's for sure. 139 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: Okay, So we'll see what happens next. And your co author. 140 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 1: You've known each other for years in Rebecca there and 141 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: what even lived together, shared a house together at one stuff. 142 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's so funny because we met as 143 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,479 Speaker 2: just like young twenty somethings when we had both moved 144 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 2: to Alice Springs to get our start in our various careers. 145 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 2: So I was up there cutting my pieces and out 146 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 2: back journalists at the time, and Rebecca was an anthropologist, 147 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 2: and so we just moved in together and we hit 148 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 2: it off, and a lot of camping trips and nights 149 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 2: out under the stars and just a lot of fun, 150 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 2: you know, sort of a back in the day, and 151 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 2: really funny now because now it's like almost twenty years 152 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 2: later and we've got five kids between us, and we've 153 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 2: kept in touch all of this time. And it was 154 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 2: Rebecca that actually encouraged me to really write this book 155 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 2: when I told her about the idea and she offered 156 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 2: to write it with me as a co author. So 157 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 2: it's amazing, you know, looking back to think you know, 158 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 2: you never know back then what different friendships can lead 159 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 2: to over time. 160 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: Amazing. Well, good luck with it tomorrow. So what you're 161 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: doing a tour of Sydney bookstores? Is that the press? 162 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 2: Well, I'm actually off to Sydney. I'm on the Today 163 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 2: Show in the morning on Today Extra with David Campbell 164 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 2: and Belinda Russell. So funnily enough, the flights just actually 165 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 2: boarding now. I have an early start tomorrow and then yeah, 166 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 2: we'll be on air, so keep an eye out tomorrow. 167 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: Absolutely good on your jests. Thank you so much, all 168 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: the best for that. I hope it does really well 169 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 1: for you. 170 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I'm so grateful to you for 171 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 2: having me on. 172 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: It's good on your jests, all the best. Jess Braithwaite 173 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: from nine Yews of Course Presents the Weather has just 174 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: done that straight to the airport on nine Interstate tomorrow 175 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: in Sydney to promote the book. How good's that? And 176 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: it's called whatever the Weather. We're in it together. So 177 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: look out for it if you've got little ones at home, kids, grandkids. 178 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: Whatever it is, sounds like a bit of fun, bit 179 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: of reading material. I saw something today said big W 180 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: twelve dollars. So but that was online, so I don't 181 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: have that's delivered or in store. But anyway, you have 182 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: a look and you'll find it around the place if 183 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: you're interested. But you know, kids love being read to. 184 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: Little kids love being read to. It it's good fun 185 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: to do too. And you make the sounds and whether 186 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: it's weather sounds or you know, train sounds, car sounds, 187 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: animal sounds, they love it. They love it. So yes, 188 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: and just another one to add to the list.