Naughty Nana and the Old House around the Corner

About the Book

Naughty Nana and the Old House Around the Corner is the sequel to the fun book Naughty Nana. This book tells a Halloween story when Nana Regina was eight years old. Regina was funny and cheeky. But sometimes, she was a bit naughty too. One of her favourite times of the year was Halloween. She loved dressing up in scary costumes and walking on the streets for trick or treating. On the year Regina turned eight, her mum told her that she could go trick or treating without an adult. She said that Regina could go with her sister Vera, who was ten years old, and with her best friend Layla, who was nine years old. Before they left, Regina’s mum told the girls, “Do not go to the old house around the corner.” Do you think Regina listened to her mum? Let’s read to find out! Naughty Nana and the Old House Around the Corner will entertain kids between ages seven and ten.

About the Author

Alessandra Salisbury is a Brazilian creative writer, journalist and actress. She has been living in Australia for the past 11 years where she graduated in Creative Writing and is currently undertaking Bachelor of Arts/Education majoring Drama to achieve her third University degree. She has written, acted on and produced several plays in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, before migrating to Australia in 2008. She is now the founder, director and choreographer of Starlettes Dance Theatre in the Far North coast area of New South Wales. With Starlettes, she has written, directed and choreographed more than 15 theatre plays since 2010. She also has published two books Naughty Nana, and Noise – a collection of short stories and poems set in Rio de Janeiro. She won third prize in 2016 Fusion Poetry Competition at Australia Southern Cross University with her poem ‘Hummus and Herbs’ about family of immigrants, and won second prize with the same poem on the American online magazine Wilda Morris Poetry Challenge 2017. Her creative writing works have appeared on the American literary magazines, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Borfski Press, Poetry Leaves, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Tiny Spoon, Comstock Review, Chicago Memory House and Event Horizon. She has poems published in the Indian OPA Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry. In Australia, her works have appeared on Northerly Magazine.