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Catherine Bateson Catherine Bateson i(A30777 works by)
Born: Established: 1960 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Born in Sydney, Bateson grew up in Brisbane where her mother, a journalist, also owned a second hand bookshop. Her father is Ronald Campbell, After completing an Arts degree at the University of Queensland, Bateson moved to Melbourne and later to country Victoria.

Bateson holds a Bachelor of Letters in Literary Studies from Deakin University and a Graduate Diploma in Creative Arts, Women's Studies, from the University of South Australia. She has taught creative writing at Box Hill and Gipps TAFE, and has regularly appeared at schools and writers' festivals.

Bateson writes across a number of styles and genres - poetry, prose, novels, reviews; and for a variety of audiences - children, young people and adults. Rain May and Captain Daniel (2003) was recommended reading for therapists by the Australian Family Therapists Award Committee for Children's Literature.

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Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2018 recipient May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Fellowship
2012 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Three month residency at the Australia Council studio, Paris, 12 June - 12 September 2013
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Star Parkside : Omnibus Books , 2012 8653041 2012 single work children's fiction children's

'Star lives with her mum and her mum's old university friend, Charlie, who has broken up with his wife. Star doesn't always like Charlie - and she certainly doesn't like his two kids, Talia and Gabe. So when Star's mum, Nell, begins to fall in love with Charlie and he moves in properly, Star isn't sure how she feels about it. Charlie hates the way his kids just want to eat Maccas and have mobile phones, so he proposes a complete change of lifestyle. Star discovers that moving to the country doesn't solve her friendship problems - but maybe Charlie has an innovative solution to that as well. After a Japanese Hamani viewing of the new backyard's plum tree, Star finds a friend who shares some of her interests. At the same time she realises that being a step-sister to Talia and Gabe might not be such a bad thing after all.' (Publication summary)
2013 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
y separately published work icon Magenta McPhee North Sydney : Woolshed Press , 2009 Z1607836 2009 single work novel young adult 'For Magenta McPhee, life is good. It would be almost perfect if she could sort out her dad, who quite possibly needs saving - from himself. Desperate times call for desperate measures, even if those measures involve identity fraud on a dating site, and replying, as your father, to emails he doesn't even know he's been getting. But when pretending to be someone else is taking you away from your life's purpose - writing the next great fantasy trilogy - things might have gone too far.' (Publisher's website.)
2009 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Best Language Development Book for Upper Primary Children (2005-2013)
y separately published work icon The Wish Pony North Sydney : Woolshed Press , 2008 Z1517386 2008 single work children's fiction children's

'Ruby's mum is having a baby, but why does she need one of those when she's already got a Ruby?

'To make matters worse, her best friend Sarah has just found another, BETTER friend.

'It seems like everyone is abandoning her.

'But when Ruby meets the mysterious Magda, who gives her a very special gift that might, just MIGHT, even be a bit magical, everything begins to change.' (Publisher's blurb)
2009 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Best Language Development Book for Upper Primary Children (2005-2013)
2009 honour book CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Younger Readers
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