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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2020 winner HNSA Elizabeth Jane Corbett Mentorship for Young Adult Historical Fiction as 'The Remarkables'.
Awards for Works
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Her Majesty’s League of Remarkable Young Ladies
Winifred Weatherby Saves the Century;
The Remarkables
Frome
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Chicken House
,
2023
27053700
2023
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Winifred Weatherby is no ordinary nineteenth-century girl. She’s unconventional, plucky, and smart. In fact, she’s a girl-genius inventor on a mission to become an engineer, despite the fact that engineering is a Men-Only Zone in 1889.
'After being expelled from her progressive academy for promising young ladies, the incorrigible Winifred Weatherby is secretly recruited to be a gadget mistress for Queen Victoria’s league of young lady spies. While aiming to exhibit her Very Promising Invention at the 1889 Paris World Fair, Winnie must protect Queen Victoria from would-be plotters, find her missing father, and prove to the world that girls CAN be inventors and engineers.' (Source: Author's website)
- 2021 winner Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition (UK) The 2021 Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition was offered in conjunction with the UK's Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) to celebrate 'IET’s 150th anniversary, putting engineering and technology front and centre of children’s fiction, while helping to raise awareness of the industry and challenging outdated stereotypes' (Source: 'IET media release, 14 October 2021'.
- 2020 winner HNSA Elizabeth Jane Corbett Mentorship for Young Adult Historical Fiction as 'The Remarkables'.
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Boogie Woogie Bird
Frenchs Forest
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Redback Publishing
,
2022
23689364
2022
single work
picture book
children's
'Curlew's lonely shrieking frazzles his friends. They beg him to try fancy dancing to woo a mate, sending him to the best birdy dancers in the bush. But clumsy Curlew can't find his groove - until the right bird comes along...' (Publication summary)
- 2022 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Five to 8 Years
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