Animation launch - bravo, Libby Hathorn!

Today marks the official launch of WHAT ROSIE HEARS, an animated story by Libby Hathorn.

As you’ll see from the launch video, this project is dear to Libby’s heart and it supports awareness of the Shepherd Centre for hearing loss for young people.

It features creators at the height of their powers, Bethany Macdonald, Elena Kats Chernin and Hamish Gilbert, who all speak about their art and their part in the animation. Then the two ‘stars of the show’ Isabel Hathorn and Rosie Gallen on whom the animation is based, launch it into the world. The animation itself follows directly after the launch.

Bravo to all involved in this innovative and heartwarming animation!

New book for Alyssa Bermudez

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Congratulations to Alyssa Bermudez on the publication of

Big Apple Diaries

Alyssa is the author and illustrator of this junior non-fiction title published by Roaring Brook Press.

A young New Yorker doodles her way through middle school—until the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack leaves her wondering if she can ever be a kid again. This heartfelt diary-style graphic memoir is based on real diaries.

Crime award for Lian Tanner

Congratulations to Lian Tanner, winner of the Sisters in Crime 2021 Davitt Award for Best Children’s Crime Novel for

A Clue for Clara

This junior fiction title was published in August 2020 by Allen & Unwin.

The hero is a scruffy chook who dreams of being a famous detective with a TV show and teams up with the daughter of the local policeman to solve crimes in the town of Little Dismal.

Our very own SCBWI committee member, Sue Whiting’s novel The Book of Chance (Walker Books Australia) was highly commended in this category

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