Hailing from Hillston and living in Leeton working as a primary school teacher, Ms Brettschneider says her story will resonate with many in the MIA.

“I’m excited about releasing the book here in the MIA because it’s close to where the story happened in Hillston,” Ms Brettschneider said.

She makes the creation of her children’s book, titled Betty Saves the Mob, sound not just fun, but relatively easy as well. 

Based on a true story from her neighbour in Hillston, she put her plan to write in action during the school holidays.

“Being a Hillston girl we did our shopping in Griffith, so for me to have the book set and available in the MIA is perfect.”

The book tells the story of Betty the sheep – the heroine of the plot who can feel within her something big is about to happen. 

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Betty isn’t wrong, and she ends up saving her mob from a bushfire – the ending of which she says isn’t revealed till the last couple of pages – keeping the reader wondering if she will succeed.

“It has a family link to it, because Betty was my grandmothers name.

“It is a very Australian-spirited story that celebrates mateship, courage and bravery.”

Dedicated to the men, women and children who have lived through an Australian summer with fires and battles fought with the weather annually, Mother Nature as the villain was fitting for her story.

“There is a lot of courage faced against the villain in the story - Mother Nature, and she's a lovely lady however very much the villain to a lot of farmers in the MIA and Australia.”

After already hitting shelves in Griffith at the Tourist Information Centre on Wednesday, it will soon be distributed throughout the international market, including in New York City and London.

A series of books are now set to follow, with the next one to follow the adventures of a cow who leaves Australia to travel the world to escape drought.