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Bruce Whatley Bruce Whatley i(A47762 works by)
Born: Established: 1954 South Wales,
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Wales (UK),
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1959 Departed from Australia: 1995
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BiographyHistory

Born in Wales, Bruce Whatley migrated to Australia with his parents in 1959 living in both Adelaide and Whyalla before returning to the United Kingdom in 1969 for further study. Whatley worked in London as an art director and illustrator from 1975 to 1980 and then re-settled in Australia, basing himself in Sydney. In 1995 Whatley moved again, this time to the USA where he took up work with HarperCollins. He later returned to Australia and settled at Berry on the south coast of New South Wales.

Whatley collaborated on many children's works with Rosie Smith (q.v.).

Whatley is the father of Ben Smith Whatley (q.v.).

Major source: The Dromkeen Book: Australian Children's Illustrators, compiled by Susan Scobie

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • For information about this author's works for children not yet included in AustLit, see Australian Children's Books by Marcie Muir and Kerry White (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1992-2004).

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Plague Lindfield : Scholastic Australia , 2023 25433215 2023 single work picture book children's 'Grass and wheat-lands spread to the horizon, and so did we, with too few ibis to control us. We could rage across the land. We ate the grass, the leaves, the wheat.' (Publication summary)
2024 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Picture Books
y separately published work icon Diary of a Rescued Wombat : The Untold Story Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2022 25391818 2022 single work picture book children's

'Celebrating the twentieth anniversary, this is the story of Mothball, one of the world's most famous wombats - and where it all began.

'She is small. She is scared. She is lost.

'She is a baby wombat who needs a home.

'She is Mothball, a wombat destined to become famous.

'This is the (almost) true story of one small wombat who learnt how to train her humans - and inspired the internationally best-selling picture book Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley.'(Publication summary) 

2023 winner ACT Notable Awards Children's Traditional publishing
y separately published work icon Christmas Always Comes Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2021 22954766 2021 single work picture book children's

''Joy comes in the morning'

'It's Christmas Eve in 1932, and Joey, Ellie and their parents are droving cattle in the drought.

'How will Santa find them on the long and dusty road? And will there be pudding and presents and a tree in the morning?

'But Joey knows that Christmas always comes.' (Publication summary)

2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Picture Book
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