Children's author's Christmas story decorates David Jones windows

By Jacqui Taffel
Updated December 4 2014 - 10:13am, first published November 28 2014 - 11:45pm
Ursula Dubosarsky is one of Austalia's best children's book writers, and has written a story that is told in the David Jones Christmas windows this year. Photo: Dallas Kilponen
Ursula Dubosarsky is one of Austalia's best children's book writers, and has written a story that is told in the David Jones Christmas windows this year. Photo: Dallas Kilponen
Ursula Dubosarsky is one of Austalia's best children's book writers, and has written a story that is told in the David Jones Christmas windows this year. Photo: Dallas Kilponen
Ursula Dubosarsky is one of Austalia's best children's book writers, and has written a story that is told in the David Jones Christmas windows this year. Photo: Dallas Kilponen
Deer's tale: Sydney children's writer Ursula Dubosarsky with the reindeer that inspired her story told in the David Jones Christmas windows this year. Photo: Dallas Kilponen
Deer's tale: Sydney children's writer Ursula Dubosarsky with the reindeer that inspired her story told in the David Jones Christmas windows this year. Photo: Dallas Kilponen
Ursula Dubosarsky is one of Austalia's best children's book writers, and has written a story that is told in the David Jones Christmas windows this year. Photo: Dallas Kilponen
Ursula Dubosarsky is one of Austalia's best children's book writers, and has written a story that is told in the David Jones Christmas windows this year. Photo: Dallas Kilponen

Visiting the David Jones windows in the city has been a Christmas tradition in Ursula Dubosarsky's family since she was a child, and she's continued it with her own three children. So the award-winning Sydney children's author was thrilled when asked to write an original story with an Australian flavour for the windows this year. The advertising agency behind the idea chose her partly because two of its staff had small children who loved her 2009 book, The Terrible Plop. When she met with the agency to talk about the concept, their brief was an open one – until they produced the toy reindeer, which they wanted as the main character.

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