About the Author

Melanie Lotfali PhD is a graduate of the Australian College of Journalism in Professional Writing for Children. Melanie has taught spiritual education classes for children for the past twenty years in five countries and is currently an active animator and trainer of animators for the Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Program. She is a qualified counselor and classroom teacher, and for over six years facilitated violence prevention and respectful relationships programs in high schools. Much of her childhood was spent on the farms, beaches and mountains of Tasmania, where the Fellowship Farm series is set. As an adult she spent four years in Siberia and four years in East Timor as a pioneer. She currently lives in Lismore, Australia, with her family.

Reviews

Thanks a million for the wonderful books, you have no idea how it has changed our lives in just one book. The virtues are now part of our everyday language. We have tried in the past but our daughter has not been interested at all, now we are creating a virtues chart of our own and she is forever pointing out which virtue we are using. It is fantastic. Our child loves to read about a Baha'i family that does the same things we do. You must have the books published so every Baha'i children can grow up with Fellowship Farm. We are just finishing the fourth book and on Thursday we will read the fifth. We read them as part of home schooling. Again thank you from our hearts. We were so excited to receive a copy of book 10 (Naw Ruz) that my daughter and mother read it straight away while I was at work! They really loved it and were inspired all over again, and can't wait for Naw-Ruz to try out some new ideas. Mum wishes she was well versed enough to use the virtues language used in the books, and is working on improving all the time. This book has put her back on track. So the main verdict seems to be "FANTASTIC, WONDERFUL, INSPIRATIONAL". Thanks for inspiring my family to be more positive and enthusiastic, I can't wait to read it myself.