Matt Dodd

Just incredible.

I can still see Tom Coughlin running at Matt Dodd, his face like red as a tomato.

So great.

James, in my book, I was so happy to have a shot of Deshaun running down with Coughlin right behind him.

And this is a translation of three epistles or four epistles for children.

And it's the translator or the author is Matt Dodd.

And the books are illustrated by Tom Brangden.

So this is the first time I think I can remember of an illustrated book for children winning the Australian Christian Book of the Year Award.

And these books... enable children to read the epistles for themselves.

Hey, you mentioned the illustrator as well.

And, you know, I guess the prize is shared, isn't it? Matt Dodd, who did all of the translation work.

Tom Bransdon, he's the illustrator.

Sometimes it's after 12 or more.

my children, the Dodd children, were all horrendous sleepers from day dot, all the way up to four slash five years of age.

And that means that if you tallied up all my prayers across my 42 years, I think my most common prayer would be the Lord's Prayer, but I reckon number two would be, please God, may someone sleep tonight.

And that means that February 2026, so February this year, was the first time since May 2013, 13 long, long years, where every member of the Dodd household slept pretty much through the night for an entire month.

It's a milestone we've been looking forward to praying for for 13 years now.

finally getting the beauty sleep we needed, and I still desperately need.