Gail Jorgensen
Gail Jorgensen is a children's book writer and primary teacher from South Australia. She has written a number of books including Crocodile Beat (1987), Gotcha! (1995), Beware! (1988), On a Dark and Scary Night (1988), and Bubble Gum (1988…
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Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley
Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley are the best of friends. But they are different in almost every …
Year:
Primary, Year 1
Author:
Aaron Blabey
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia, Picture Puffin
Published year:
2009
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Aaron Blabey
Aaron Blabey has won a CBCA (Children's Book Council of Australia) Book of the Year and an AFI Award, and his book The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon won the Patricia Wrightson Award in the 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and also won a Children's …
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Graeme Base
Graeme Base is one of the world's leading creators of picture books. His alphabet book Animalia, received international acclaim when it was first published in 1986, and has achieved classic status with worldwide sales approaching three million …
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Freya Blackwood
Freya Blackwood is a multi-award-winning illustrator and writer. Her picture books are beloved for her warm and perceptive drawings. Since publishing her first picture book in 2003, Freya has worked with writers such as Libby Gleeson, Margaret Wild, …
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Irena Kobald
Irena Kobold has been a teacher and writer in the Northern Territory. She has a Master’s degree in Russian…
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My Two Blankets
Cartwheel has moved to a place that is so strange to her, she no longer feels like herself.
This …
Year:
Primary, Year 2
Author:
Irena Kobald
Illustrator:
Freya Blackwood
Publisher:
Hardie Grant Publishing, Little Hare
Published year:
2014
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The Peasant Prince
A moving and inspirational story based on the author's life that delights the young and the old…
Year:
Primary, Year 3, Year 4
Author:
Li Cunxin
Illustrator:
Anne Spudvilas
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Published year:
2007
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Li Cunxin
Li Cunxin AO was born in 1961 in the Li Commune, near the city of Qingdao on the coast of north-east China. The sixth of seven sons in a poor rural family, Li's peasant life in Chairman Mao's communist China changed dramatically when, at the age of …
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Anne Spudvilas
Anne Spudvilas is a multi-award-winning illustrator of children's books and an established portrait painter who also works as a courtroom artist for the Melbourne media. Her first picture book The Race was awarded the Crichton Award for Illustration …
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