Nadia Wheatley
Nadia Wheatley began writing full-time in 1976, after completing postgraduate work in Australian history. She writes non-fiction and fiction, for both adults and children. Her picture book My Place, illustrated by Donna Rawlins, was the Children’s …
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Five Times Dizzy
Together Five Times Dizzy and Dancing in the Anzac Deli tell the tale of Mareka and the Wilson kids…
Year:
Primary, Year 3, Year 4
Author:
Nadia Wheatley
Publisher:
Hachette Australia
Published year:
1982
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Jackie French
Jackie French AM is an award-winning writer, wombat negotiator, the 2014–2015 Australian Children's Laureate and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. In 2016 Jackie became a Member of the Order of Australia for her contribution to children's …
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Flood
Inspired by the Queensland floods, Flood is a moving and sensitive story of a natural disaster as …
Year:
Primary, Year 1, Year 2
Author:
Jackie French
Illustrator:
Bruce Whatley
Publisher:
Scholastic Australia
Published year:
2011
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Margaret Wild
Margaret Wild is one of Australia's most-loved picture book authors.
She has written over twenty books, many of which have appeared in foreign editions. All have been highly acclaimed. Jenny Angel (which was inspired by her brother's death at the…
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Ron Brooks
Ron Brooks spent his childhood in Mallacoota, Victoria. Now he writes, designs and illustrates picture books for kids. He has made many books over the thirty or so years he has been working, has won many awards, including the Children's Book Council …
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Fox
A magnificent and arresting picture book that goes to the heart of human relationships.
Dog and …
Year:
Secondary, Year 9
Author:
Margaret Wild
Illustrator:
Ron Brooks
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Published year:
2000
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Libby Gleeson
Books were hugely important to Libby Gleeson as a child, and have remained the focus of her adult life. Libby’s fiction and picture books have won multiple awards, including CBCA short-listings and wins, the Bologna Ragazzi Award in 2000, and the …
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Armin Greder
Armin Greder was born in Switzerland and migrated to Australia in 1970. He learned to draw at school, not in art classes but during maths and grammar, in the back of exercise books. Armin apprenticed as an architectural draftsperson but instead of …
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The Great Bear
The circus bear spends her days in a cage and her nights performing for a crowd. The crowd taunts …
Year:
Primary, Year 3, Year 4
Author:
Libby Gleeson
Illustrator:
Armin Greder
Publisher:
Walker Books Australia
Published year:
2010
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