Writing
Horacek started her career as a writer, and was a member of a community writing group in North Melbourne. Words are an important part of her cartoons, and sometimes dominate the pictures.
After illustrating a children's picture book for Mem Fox, she began to write and illustrate her own children's books, something she had always wanted to do.
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