Melanie Prewett
Melanie Prewett is a mother of two children who set out to create a story showing that physical disability is no barrier to true friendship. Melanie started off her working life in an employment agency and this took her to Fitzroy Crossing and Derby …
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Cathy Goonack
Cathy Goonack is a descendant of the Wunambul people and part of the Kandiwal tribe from Ngauwudu land, near the Mitchell Plateau in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. She grew up in Derby and moved to Adelaide to finish her education. Cathy …
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Marlene, Myron and Katrina Goonack
Marlene, Myron and Katrina Goonack all attended the Kimberley School of the Air in Western Australia at Kandiwal Community for their primary and secondary education. They have worked together to produce art for many of their family's stories and …
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Trina Saffioti
Trina Saffioti lives in Wellington, New Zealand and is a descendant of the Gugu Yulangi people of North Queensland. Trina has always wanted to be a writer and she is influenced by the creation stories her grandmother told her and the family stories …
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Norma MacDonald
Norma MacDonald is a Yamatji woman, born in the coastal town of Geraldton in Western Australia. Her extensive art career includes numerous solo and group exhibitions. Her work is held in collections at the National Gallery in Canberra, the Art …
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Jukuna Mona Chuguna
Jukuna Mona Chuguna (deceased) was a Walmajarri woman from the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. She left the desert with her husband in the 1950s to live and work on cattle and sheep stations in the Kimberley's Fitzroy Valley. In middle age, …
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Pat Lowe
Pat Lowe was born and grew up in England but dreamed of migrating to Australia, which she did in 1972. She worked as a teacher in Africa and as a prison psychologist in Australia, but writing has always been her passion. She met Jimmy Pike in 1979 …
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Mervyn Street
Mervyn Street is a Gooniyandi artist, from the Fitzroy River region of northern Western Australia. In his youth he worked as a stockman and later developed his artistic talents, producing many paintings, drawings and prints of station life. He now …
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Mem Fox
Mem is the author of over 25 books and is one of Australia’s best and most loved picture book authors. She is the author of the iconic and bestseller children’s book ever in Australia, Possum Magic which has sold over 3 million copies. Sales of …
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Julie Vivas
Julie Vivas is one of Australia's most loved and popular picture book illustrators. Her first picture book, The Tram to Bondi Beach(written by Libby Hathorn), was Highly Commended in the 1982 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Picture Book…
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