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Leanne White grew up Albany, South Western Australia. She teaches art and music at a local Albany Primary School.

Leanne uses her art to promote Australian wildlife. The fragility of their existence in an ever-changing environment is her main concern. She endeavours to illustrate an ability to co-exist, thus maintaining Australian wildlife heritage. 

Leanne has 25 years of teaching and 15 years of commercial art experience to draw on in her children’s book writing and illustrating. Her primary ethos in children’s books is to develop the child’s imagination and curiosity in an ever-changing world.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Emerald : The Green Turtle's Tale Nannup : Wild Eyed Press , 2017 13796468 2017 single work picture book children's

'Emerald the Green Turtle hatches from her egg and, with her many sisters, makes her perilous journey to the beckoning sea.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)

2018 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards Five to 8 Years
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