Gay McKinnon and Anne Morgan win Wilderness Society Award

Congrats to Tassie members Anne Morgan (author) and Gay McKinnon (illustrator) - our Tassie rep - on winning (shared for first place)

The Wilderness Society's 2014 Environmental Award for Children's Literature, Young Readers' category, with:

The Smallest Carbon Footprint in the Land
and other eco-tales

In this delightful collection of organically-grown eco-tales, a prince wants to marry the girl with the smallest carbon footprint in the land; Space Cadet finds out why a planet is like a bowl of porridge; a girl in a little green hoodie tries to save an endangered wolf; and Chicken Licken warns the sea is rising.
Times have changed in Fairytale Land!

What novel twists - great stuff Anne and Gay!


Felicity Pulman Highly Commended in Davitt Awards

Congrats to Felicity Pulman, whose YA novel

A Ring Through Time

has received a Highly Commended at the Davitt Awards (Sisters in Crime)

Published by Harper Collins, isbn 9780732294885

Ghosts, secrets ... and a love that haunts the future, unless Ali can uncover the mystery of what really happened while her brutal ancestor was commandant of the Second Penal Colony on Norfolk Island. 

Also Winner of the Biennial book award (Junior/YA category from the Society of Women Writers, Sydney!

Richly deserved - congrats again Felicity!

Julie Hunt wins inaugural Readings Childrens Book Prize

Huge congratulations to Julie Hunt, whose wonderful novel

Song for a Scarlet Runner

has won the very first 

Readings Children's Book Prize!

the Readings Prize was established this year to recognise and celebrate books that families love reading together, or that children read under the covers with a torch late into the night because they can't bear to put it down - books they tell their friends about. It aims to raise the profile of debut and on-th-rise Australian authors who will make an important contribution to  the rich variety of Australian publishing.
You can read more about Julie and her book, plus this wonderful initiative by Readings here

Song for a Scarlet Runner is published by Allen and Unwin.

PS It's also on the Shortlist for the CBCA Awards, so fingers crossed for this, Julie!