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It is commonly known that when one wants to find out something, one asks questions to gain information. This would seem fairly straightforward, even interesting and calming, as one looks at things from different angles to understand everything. Though, what if this simple task becomes fearful? What if you are forced to answer questions or you are insulted for your answers to a question, and what if, what you say, is used against you by the one asking the questions? In Shirley's Garden, a simple search for answers unfolded in such a manner when the garden residents were trying to work out what Tammy, the Garden Fairy, had witnessed the human gardener carrying into a room in the garden. Rufeus Jerome Stanford, the high-brow crested Pigeon was at the epicentre of this storm, demanding answers to his questions, not to help the garden residents, but to change their lives for the worse. Fearful of him, the garden residents do submit to him at first, but some of them find the courage to stand up to him and challenge his bullying. This book in the series, 'Shirley's Imaginarium, ' takes a look at how ugly bullying is and how one can stand up to the bully with courage, the support of one's friends, thinking about what the bully is up to and what is at stake, and speaking up, as best as you can. This book also inches closer to uncovering the mystery of what Shirley's Imaginarium is, and how the garden residents discover it amidst them, in their home in Kiama in Australia.

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Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey in her fiction work imagines worlds within worlds to whimsically celebrate life. A published non-fiction author, academic, consultant and teacher, her love for imagining grew as a young observer of extraordinary worlds living in Asia. Her love for literature developed in Australia as an English scholar and teacher, but really blossomed when she became mindful of life amongst the smallest creatures and inanimate objects celebrating life in her garden. Her stories offer meaning and warmth for children and the young at heart. Follow her work at animaginarium.com website and at ShirleysImaginarium at Youtube.Diann is also the Founder and Principal of the Australian Centre for Leadership for Women (ACLW) - a virtual Centre which she founded in 2000. She is an Adjunct Professor in The Cairns Institute of James Cook University and has lectured in leadership, management and education in the University of Wollongong. She has held positions of leadership and management in Sydney and London in diverse sectors including education, business and the not-for-profit sector. She has coached and mentored women and men in leadership and management and worked with organisations to advance leadership pathways since 2004. Diann was the recipient of the University of Wollongong's 2015 Alumni Award for Social Impact. In 2014, she was named as one of the '100 Women of Influence' in Australia by Westpac & the Financial Review.' She was also selected as one of the 100 women who have ""made a world of difference"" to the economic empowerment of women by The International Alliance for Women (TIAW) in Canada for its 2009 World of Difference Awards. Her non-fiction publications include books and articles on gender and leadership, and government and democracy. She is also a Reviewer for international journals including the Gender in Management Journal, Advancing Women and the Journal of Women, Politics and Policy. Several of her non-fiction publications to do with leadership and gender are available freely at the ACLW website for the Australian Centre for Leadership for Women.

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