Tucked away in Pete and Robyn Law’s master bedroom at their rural home, Willabah, is an extraordinary book. Big, covered in leather, it looks like the kind of book that you’d find in a European monastery library. The pages are full of skilful drawings, hand-written texts and riddles. Bird feathers are glued in, candle wax dropped onto the pages … the attention to detail is extraordinary. “We wrote the book and made it look like it was a very old book, in leather,” Pete explains. “We poured tea on it and soaked the pages.”
In the absence of a TV in the house, the Laws came up with the idea for the book that contains more than a hint of the fantasy world of JK Rowling or perhaps John Flanagan. “It is about these creatures that live in the forest. There are all these talismans and if all the talismans are in one place, the creatures won’t show their faces,” Pete explains with an enthusiasm that clearly expresses the big kid in him. “But there is one talisman that’s missing in the book, that’s hanging in the graveyard. So you’ve got to go there, get it and bring it back to the book. It’s just
