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'Aster attends a school for gifted kids, but she doesn’t think she’s special at all. If she was, her mother wouldn’t have left. And if she isn’t careful, everyone else will leave her too.
'Each day Aster must do a good, right thing – a challenge she sets herself, to make someone else’s life better. Nobody can know about her ‘things’, because then they won’t count. And if she doesn’t do them, she knows everything will go wrong.
Then she meets Xavier. He wears princess pajamas and has his own kind of special missions to make life better. When they do these missions together, Aster feels free…but if she stops doing her good, right things will everything fall apart?' (Publication summary)
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'Tiny Moments of Joy' with Kate Gordon : Joy Lawn Interviews Kate Gordon about Her Books for Children
Joy Lawn
(interviewer),
2022
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— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 37 no. 2 2022; (p. 8-9) -
‘There’s Obviously a Market’ : Why Are There so Many Children’s Books about Anxiety?
2022
single work
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 8 July 2022;
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‘There’s Obviously a Market’ : Why Are There so Many Children’s Books about Anxiety?
2022
single work
column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 8 July 2022; -
'Tiny Moments of Joy' with Kate Gordon : Joy Lawn Interviews Kate Gordon about Her Books for Children
Joy Lawn
(interviewer),
2022
single work
interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 37 no. 2 2022; (p. 8-9)
Awards
- 2022 shortlisted Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards — Minister for the Arts' Prize for Books for Young Readers and Children
- 2021 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Eight to 10 Years
- 2021 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Younger Readers
- 2021 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
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