Our Authors/Illustrators
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Aleesah loves writing stories with humour and heart for children and young adults. She coordinates a children’s writers’ group at the NSW Writers’ Centre and reviews books for The Sun Herald.
Puggle’s Problem, Aleesah’s first picture book, was released in July 2010 published by Wombat Books. Two other picture books, Warambi (Working Title Press) and Bearly There (Windy Hollow Books), are due out in 2011. The first instalment in her junior series, The Diary of Persephone Pinchgut: Twin Trouble, was released in September 2010 (New Frontier Publishing).
A number of Aleesah’s short stories have appeared in The School Magazine and Little Ears and she has won numerous awards for her writing. In 2009, she was awarded an ASA mentorship and came runner-up in the CBCA (NSW) Frustrated Writers Program.
Married with three children, John W. Dickinson is a respected writer and artist who lives and works on a small island off the coast of Queensland, Australia. John has drawn on his love for the environment and his experience of working with people with complex behaviours to produce Jade and El-Sea, his first young adult novel.
John enjoys the use of fantasy to illustrate human traits and behaviours in the hope that it will create deeper insight and a new way of understanding the world we live in.
For more about John and this novel go to www.jadeandelsea.com
Amanda Dunne:
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Louise Elliott does editing consulting for the Queensland Writer Centre. As a local South East Queensland author she has won awards for her writing over the past years. Many of her titles have been best sellers and have been recognised by the children's book council.
God's Poetry: The Destiny and Identity Encoded in Your name (Even Before Publishing imprint)
Terry: Adventures of a Terek Sandpiper
Anne Hamilton, author and editor of a number of books.
Birds in Mind: Australian nature poems
Far From Home: poems of faith, grief and gladness (Even Before Publishing imprint)
Allsorts: poetry tricks and treats
Andrew Lansdown’s poems and stories have been widely published and have won many literary awards. His most recent books besides the Wombat Book releases are: a collection of poetry, Fontanelle (Five Islands Press); a collection of short stories, The Dispossessed (Interactive Press); three fantasy novels, With My Knife, Dragonfox and The Red Dragon (Omnibus Books/ Scholastic Australia); and two poetry chapbooks, Little Matters: a gathering of 89 haiku & senryu and Consolations: 48 tanka (Picaro Press). His website address is: www.andrewlansdown.com.
Jeni Mawter:
Jeni Mawter is a best-selling Australian children's author as well as a mother to three children. She knows all about the excitement of welcoming the newest member into a family.
Sarah Rowan Dahl:
Cover Artist for:
Sarah Rowan Dahl is a contemporary artist with a BFA in Studio Art. She is a mother of two and this project was created during her latest pregnancy.
Terry: Adventures of a Terek Sandpiper
Cover artist for: Jade and El-Sea
Sandra Temple is an award winning artist with a passion for wildlife conservation. She illustrated the highly successful children's book Puggle's Problem. Inspired by the incredible true life story of the sandpipers her newest title she sees as an opportunity to educate children and adults alike about the plight of the Tereks as their feeding grounds are reduced each year.
Marion Wall:
Authors in Unborn Beauty: There were 50 contributors to Unborn Beauty. Check out their biographies here.