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Jeanie Adams Jeanie Adams i(A41432 works by) (a.k.a. Elsie Jean Adams)
Born: Established: 1945 Hamilton, Hamilton (Vic) area, Western District, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Jeanie Adams was born at Hamilton, Victoria. She completed a B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology at Monash University then taught for some time in Victorian schools before becoming a lecturer in Sociology at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. In 1976 she and her family moved to Aurukun, a remote Aboriginal Community in the Far North of Australia. In 1984 she returned to Melbourne and completed a B.Ed (Art & Craft) degree. She drew on her experience at Aurukun when writing her first children's books, Pigs and Honey (1989) and Going for Oysters (1991), the former winning the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers. Both books have been translated into Wik-Mungkan, a major language of the Aurukun Aboriginal people. The English version employs the voice of Aurukun storytellers and has been endorsed by the Aurukun community as an authentic portrayal of their lifestyle. Adams is also the illustrator of Christobel Mattingley's Tucker's Mob (1992).

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Tucker's Mob Norwood : Omnibus Books , 1992 Z837576 1992 single work picture book children's
1993 shortlisted Australian Multicultural Children's Literature Awards
y separately published work icon Pigs and Honey Adelaide : Omnibus Books , 1989 Z667918 1989 single work picture book children's 'Pigs and Honey' tells of a day in the life of the Aboriginal community at Aurukun, a town on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland. It is the sort of story the people there like to tell each other. Members of the Aurukun community have endorsed the publication of this book through their minister of the Uniting Church, the Reverend Silas Wolmby, and the elders of the church. They are pleased that children throughout Australia can now read about how the people of Aurukun enjoy their way of life on their own land.' (Back cover)
1990 CBCA Book of the Year Awards CBCA Award for New Illustrator New Illustrators
1990 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Younger Readers
y separately published work icon Pigs and Honey Adelaide : Omnibus Books , 1989 Z667918 1989 single work picture book children's 'Pigs and Honey' tells of a day in the life of the Aboriginal community at Aurukun, a town on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland. It is the sort of story the people there like to tell each other. Members of the Aurukun community have endorsed the publication of this book through their minister of the Uniting Church, the Reverend Silas Wolmby, and the elders of the church. They are pleased that children throughout Australia can now read about how the people of Aurukun enjoy their way of life on their own land.' (Back cover)
1990 CBCA Book of the Year Awards CBCA Award for New Illustrator New Illustrators
1990 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Younger Readers
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