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Minister for the Arts' Prize for Books for Young Readers and Children
(2022-)
Subcategory of Tasmanian Literary Awards
Subcategory of Tasmanian Literary Awards
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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2022
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Ella and the Ocean
Jonathan Bentley
(illustrator),
Crows Nest
:
Allen and Unwin
,
2019
16562714
2019
single work
picture book
children's
'A very Australian story of drought and renewal, of family, of imagination and of the power of hope.
Ella lived in the red-dirt country
where the earth was as dry as old bones
and it hadn't rained
for years
and years
and years.One night, Ella dreamt of the ocean…'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
