"Melissa Sweet" is an Australian freelance journalist and nonfiction writer. Formerly employed by The Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin magazine and Australian Associated Press, she specialises in writing about human health and medicine.

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One of the hallmarks of any book about her is we don't really know her. We know the story, and there's different ways different cultures have told that story, but I really wanted to get to know her as a character.

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Some bears sit in great big chairs, great big chairs for great big bears.

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I thought well, if a little kid is going to take off to her grandmother's, she must, in my mind, like the woods and nature. The journal thing comes right up again.

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