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Felice Arena
Author, Illustrator
Felice Arena is one of Australia’s much-loved writers for kids. He is the author of many best-selling and award-winning books, including Wish, the Boyz Rule stories, the hilarious Farticus Maximus and the hugely popular Specky Magee series, co-written with old school mate and football legend Garry Lyon.
Felice is proud to be one of the ambassadors for the National Year of Reading 2012 program and the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge.
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Kerry Argent
Author, Illustrator
Kerry Argent is one of Australia’s finest and most highly acclaimed illustrators. Her first picture book, One Woolly Wombat was published while she was still at art school and went on to become an international bestseller. For over a decade, Kerry combined illustrating books with her job as Art Director at Omnibus Books in Adelaide. She now illustrates full time and works on texts of her own, like India the Show-Stopper, as well as continuing to collaborate with Australia’s best known picture book writers, including Margaret Wild (Ruby Roars).
» Read more about Kerry Argent
Tim Bain
Curriculum Specialist, Illustrator
Tim Bain is an award-winning filmmaker, animator, TV writer and children’s playwright. An audio-visual jack-of-all-trades, he writes, directs, produces and edits television commercials, promotional films, documentaries and animation, and writes television comedy.
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Katherine Battersby
Author, Illustrator
Katherine is a children’s writer and illustrator whose first picture book, Squish Rabbit, is published in Australia, the US, China and other countries. She has had many short stories published in anthologies and magazines, and in 2010 was awarded a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for her writing. She adores reading, rabbits and anime, and thinks exclamation marks are evil.
Katherine will tour schools in South Australia in March 2012
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Lorette Broesktra
Author, Illustrator
Lorette Broekstra writes and illustrates children’s picture books. She wrote and illustrated the best selling Baby Bear and Hugo series.
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Kevin Burgemeestre
Author, Illustrator
Kevin trained in illustration, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock and Bugs Bunny to tell the story with pictures! His writing debut came with B is for Bravo, a dramatic picture book about Australian aviation illustrated using 3D (grab your glasses!) dioramas made from recycled stuff. He loves telling Australian stories and giving inspirational workshops, where he is often heard saying: “There’s nothing you can’t do on paper!”
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Deborah Carlyon
Author, Illustrator
Deborah Carlyon is a talented writer and versatile speaker. Her work forms a bridge between two cultures. Her books have sensitivity, depth, heart, humour, and a soulful, healing imagery.
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Isobelle Carmody
Author, Illustrator
Isobelle Carmody is one of Australia’s most highly regarded and prominent authors of fantasy for young adult readers. A consummate and much-loved storyteller, Isobelle has a host of award-winning novels to her credit, including The Obernewton Chronicles and The Legend of Little Fur series. Her latest books are The Red Wind and a collaborative collection of short stories based on fairy tales, with Nan Mc Nab, The Wilful Eye.
Isobelle will be touring Tasmania (Hobart) (7-11 May) and Victoria (Melbourne) (15-16 May) 2012.
Isobelle’s dates for Melbourne in May are now booked out for 2012; however there are some dates available in October.
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Anna Ciddor
Author, Illustrator
Anna Ciddor has written and illustrated over 50 books on topics as diverse as Vikings, travel, toilets and Australian history. She is best known for her highly popular Viking Magic trilogy Runestone, Wolfspell and Stormriders.
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John Danalis
Author, Illustrator, Storyteller/Performer
John Danalis has been writing and illustrating for children and young adults for ten years. His works include picture books, chapter books and non-fiction.
John will tour schools in Victoria and New South Wales in 2012
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Sue DeGennaro
Illustrator
Sue deGennaro is an illustrator. She has illustrated 5 picture books. Her illustrations are quirky and infectiously funny.
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Terry Denton
Illustrator, Author
Terry Denton is best known for the Gasp! series, the Wombat and Fox stories and the best selling Just! books, done in collaboration with Andy Griffiths. He is one of those lucky people who can write and illustrate. He has written twenty children’s books himself and collaborated on eighty more with some of the most popular children’s authors in Australia.
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Kylie Dunstan
Author, Illustrator
Kylie Dunstan is an award winning author and illustrator of children’s picture books. Her first book Collecting Colour won CBCA Picture Book of the Year in 2009. She has since written and illustrated two more books and is working on her fourth.
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Marjory Gardner
Illustrator
Marjory Gardner has been illustrating for trade and educational books and magazines for over twenty years. Her rainbow colours and cheerful, friendly style are instantly recognizable.
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Serena Geddes
Illustrator
Serena spent six years with Walt Disney Animation Australia working closely with Simba, Peter Pan and Mowgli on the sequels for Lion King, Return to Neverland and Jungle Book. Unfortunately she did not meet Mickey as he was never around when there was work to be done. She continued creating for greeting card and magazine publishers before stepping into children’s books. Within the first two years Serena had illustrated fourteen books and is writing her first author/illustrated children’s book for publication next year.
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Gus Gordon
Illustrator, Author
Gus Gordon is a children’s book author and illustrator. He has written and illustrated over 70 books for children. His most recent picture book, Wendy (Penguin), about a motorcycle riding stunt chicken, was selected as a CBCA Notable Book in the 2010 Book of the Year Awards. His new picture book, Herman and Rosie (Penguin), comes out in September 2012 in Australia and in 2013 in the US.
Gus has always been attracted to drawing and writing about animals in human roles. This most likely stems from a long love of Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in The Willows. Gus also likes cheese.
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Mini Goss
Author, Illustrator
Mini Goss is a Melbourne-based award winning author and illustrator, with more than 30 books to her name. Mini’s life-like, detailed illustrations draw readers into a world of imagination and humour that appeal to children and parent alike. She has won over fans in Australia and overseas with her quirky, realistic style.
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Nicki Greenberg
Author, Illustrator
Nicki Greenberg has a special interest in sequential art narrative, (which is a fancy way of saying comic books). Her first books, The Digits series, were published when she was just fifteen years old and sold more than 380 000 copies. Since then, she has devoted most of her ink to comics, but has also written and illustrated fiction and non-fiction books for children.
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Roland Harvey
Author, Illustrator
Roland Harvey writes and illustrates highly detailed, funny and slightly educational books using pen ink and watercolour. He has won a number of awards including the Dromkeen Medal. He demonstrates his craft in an entertaining manner to all ages.
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Elizabeth Honey
Author, Illustrator
Elizabeth Honey is an award-winning author of poetry, picture books and novels. She is also an artist and illustrates her own books. Her playful humour, originality, and energy strike a chord with children everywhere. Her novels are published in many countries.
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Geoff Kelly
Author, Illustrator
Geoff has worked in most areas of illustration from magazines and publishing to the many faceted world of commercial art. He has written and illustrated a number of children’s books and made the pictures for many more.
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David Lovegrove
Illustrator
David Lovegrove is a gifted artist who studied at two of Australia’s best art schools – The Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and the Qld College of Art, Brisbane (where he gained his Master of Arts in Visual Arts). His passion is for exploring the ‘Way’ or the ‘Tao’ of the artist in the 21st Century, bringing together high skill and intuitive inspiration and freedom.
In his presentations and workshops he focuses on the cutting edge melding of story and artistic skill used in the creation of Graphic Novels, Manga and Comics and in Concept Art for Film, TV and Computer Games.
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Emma Magenta
Illustrator, Author
Emma Magenta was born in Sydney and began her career drawing and writing her thoughts down on brown paper bags while working at Berkelouw Books in Paddington. After pinning them to the front window, they accrued a cult status and a publishing deal was offered to her by Australian publishing phenomenon; Bradley Trevor Grieve.
Since then, she has written and illustrated several adult picture books; The Peril of Magnificent Love, A Gorgeous Sense of Hope, The Origin of Lament and The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch. These books explore aspects of the feminine psyche, one’s emotional world and the secret life of relationships. They have resonated with thousands of women around the globe as an antidote to depression and a validation of hope.
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Felicity Marshall
Author, Illustrator
Felicity is an author and illustrator of children’s picture books, as well as an accomplished painter. She believes in a holistic approach to art, and its role in all forms as both expression and therapy. She also believes that the process of creating art is as important as the end result.
Felicity makes a trip to Western Australia most years, around October. She is able to visits schools, libraries and other institutions at these times.
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Lucia Masciullo
Illustrator
Lucia is an award winning illustrator of children’s picture books and novels. Since she moved from Italy to Australia in 2007 she has collaborated with Penguin (Australia) and Hardie Grant Egmont.
Lucia has been chosen as illustrator for the debut illustrated books of award winning author Sonya Hartnett and one of her illustrated books, Family Forest, was shortlisted for the CBCA award 2011.
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Marc McBride
Illustrator
Marc McBride has illustrated over fifty book covers and countless magazines, as well as producing artwork for advertising campaigns. He has a solid design background in both advertising and film, and won the West Australian Film and Television Award for Best Art Director. Marc has had work exhibited with the New York Society of Illustrators. He is best known for his illustrations in the Deltora Quest series, written by Emily Rodda.
Marc will take expressions of interest for residencies with schools in Western Australia in 2012.
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Heath McKenzie
Illustrator
Heath McKenzie is a best selling illustrator specialising in stylised, rather cartoony digital illustration (though it’s all meant to look as ‘not digital’ as possible!)
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David Miller
Author, Illustrator
David Miller is having a lot of difficulty answering this question, so here are a few kind words from publisher Helen Chamberlin: ‘David is a leading Australian children’s book author/illustrator with a hugely impressive track record. His unique paper sculptures are of the highest artistic merit and he has a consummately professional approach to all he undertakes.’
David’s Tasmania tour in May 2012 is now fully booked — but we can recommend alternative visiting speakers for you.
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Martine Murray
Author, Illustrator
Martine Murray left university to study art. After art school she studied more physical things like acrobatics and dance. Then she tried to join it all together in theatre. Meanwhile, she started writing just to keep track of what was going on. She spends a lot of time walking with her dog, Bear, and thinking up ideas. She has never learnt practical skills except how to cook rice. She lives in Melbourne.
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Narelle Oliver
Author, Illustrator
Narelle Oliver is author and illustrator of award-winning picture books which feature narratives based on both natural history and imaginary/social/mathematical themes. Equipped with a Bachelor of Education, teaching experience, and twenty years of publication experience, she has conducted writing and illustrating workshops across Australia and South-East Asia.
Narelle will tour schools in Melbourne, Victoria and Sydney, New South Wales in August 2012.
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Jeff Raglus
Author, Illustrator
Jeff Raglus is a well known artist, illustrator and musician. He has worked for Mambo Graphics, Swatch Watches and has played in musical ensembles such as The Black Sorrows and The Bachelors from Prague.
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Sally Rippin
Author, Illustrator
Sally Rippin is one of Booked Out’s most versatile speakers. She has run workshops and given presentations from Prep to Year 12 in both writing and illustrating. Sally travels regularly throughout Australia to speak at schools and festivals and has recently had residencies in Beijing, Singapore, Shanghai and Ghana.
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Jeannette Rowe
Author, Illustrator
Jeannette Rowe is one of Australia’s best selling preschool authors/illustrators. She has published over serventy picture books over the past twelve years and has sold nearly two million books around the world.
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Craig Smith
Illustrator
Craig Smith’s warm, quirky illustrations have amused kids for more than three decades. With over 360 books to his credit, the humor and pathos of home and school life, and a fondness for unusual perspectives are features of his work.
Craig will tour schools in Western Australia from 30 July–8 August 2012. The tour is fully booked but we welcome expressions of interest for future opportunities.
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R.A. Spratt
Author, Illustrator
R.A.Spratt is an award-winning comedy writer with thirteen years experience in the television industry. She started out writing political satire, then moved into sketch comedy, then pre-school drama and in more recent years has worked mainly in animation. R.A. Spratt lives in Sydney. She used to enjoy bellringing, hapkido and long distance running. But then she had two children has rarely left the house since. She is currently working on the 6th installment in the Nanny Piggins series.
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Anne Spudvilas
Illustrator
Anne Spudvilas is a multi award-winning illustrator of children’s books. Her work on the picture book version of Mao’s Last Dancer, The Peasant Prince, took her to China with author Li Cunxin. The Peasant Prince won both the NSW and Qld Premiers Awards and CBCA Honor book in 2008. Anne’s work concentrates on portraying character and expression in people in commissioned portraits, courtroom sketching and children’s books. Anne is in demand for drawing workshops here and overseas and gives presentations about the process of illustrating books for primary and secondary level.
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Shaun Tan
Author, Illustrator
After completing a Fine Arts degree in Literature, Shaun’s focus on illustration has taken him to the science-fiction genre, political cartooning and picture books. Shaun’s work with writers like John Marsden and Gary Crew, along with writing of his own, has established him as a progressive of contemporary picture books.
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Coral Tulloch
Illustrator, Author
Coral Tulloch has worked on close to 60 books for children for both Australian and International publishers. As an author and illustrator, working in both fiction and non-fiction, Coral brings a wide range of presentations from cartooning to discussions on the environment, for a wide audience group.
Her latest book, One Small Island co-authored and co-illustrated with Alison Lester tells the story of Macquarie Island. She is currently working on two illustrated fictions, which revolve around the continent she loves so well.
» Read more about Coral Tulloch
Mitch Vane
Illustrator
Mitch Vane has illustrated children’s books with many different publishers in Australia & in the US. She has collaborated with her partner Danny Katz to create many books including the Yabba Award Winning “Little Lunch” series, & her cartoons appeared with his weekly column in the Age for 11 years. She has also recently illustrated a series of Zodiac Stamps for Australia Post. Mitch works with a variety of mediums such as acrylic paint and watercolour, but is happiest drawing funny pictures with an old-fashioned dip pen and lots of messy Indian Ink.
» Read more about Mitch Vane
Anna Walker
Author, Illustrator
Anna Walker has illustrated and written delightful books for young children. Her books have won awards for their design and content and are published internationally.
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Gabrielle Wang
Author, Illustrator
Gabrielle Wang is an award winning author and illustrator of novels and picture books for children and young adults. She was born in Melbourne of Chinese heritage. As a result, Gabrielle’s books are a blend of both Australian and Chinese culture with a touch of fantasy. She has conducted workshops in writing and illustrating around Australia and overseas.
Gabrielle Wang will take expressions of interest from schools in South Australia in May 2012
» Read more about Gabrielle Wang
Trudy White
Author, Illustrator
Trudy White is a painter, illustrator, author and designer. She draws in watercolour, ink and acrylic paint, making large paintings and small books, and she also designs books and other things.
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Mark Wilson
Author, Illustrator
Mark Wilson is one of Australia’s most successful author/illustrators of children’s books. He currently has seventeen books in print in Australia and the USA. His picture books have won many awards including two Whiteley Awards for children’s picture books, two Wilderness Society Awards and five CBCA Notable Picture Book awards.
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Ben Wood
Illustrator
Ben Wood has been illustrating for publishers and design studios for many years. He has been a Booked Out speaker for nearly as long and enjoys creating books with students.
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