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Sue Whiting Sue Whiting i(A69629 works by)
Born: Established: 1960 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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Sue Whiting started her working life as a primary school teacher with a special interest in literacy education and children's literature. In 2005 she left teaching to pursue a career in publishing and has worked as a children's book editor. She is also a successful children's author who has written almost 60 books. She lives in Illawarra.

 

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y separately published work icon The Wheelbarrow Express Melbourne : Walker Books Australia , 2023 26053924 2023 single work picture book children's 'The Wheelbarrow Express is a heartfelt and rollicking tale about the special love between a grandparent and a child. It's Tommy's last day at Pa's farm and it's time to say goodbye. Tommy doesn't want to go. Not yet. He loves the farm and its playful pigs and clucking chickens and galloping goats and the dam that is deep and blue and perfect for skimming stones. And he loves Pa. But Pa has a plan: there's time for one last run on the Wheelbarrow Express. Toot! Toot! All aboard!' (Publication summary)
2024 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Early Childhood
y separately published work icon Pearly and Pig and the Lost City of Mu Savan Newtown : Walker Books Australia , 2022 25568948 2022 single work children's fiction children's 'A fast-paced adventure series perfect for readers 8, from award-winning author Sue Whiting. Pearly Woe is a worrier. But there is no room for worries when you are trying to prove yourself. Yet this is little comfort to Adventurologist-in-training, Pearly Woe, as she motors down the mighty Mekong River on another adventure. Pearly, Pig & the entire Woe family are destined for the kingdom of Anachak, where they plan to search for the lost city of Mu Savan. A jungle adventure! What could go wrong? Everything. Of course!' (Publication summary) 
2024 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
y separately published work icon Tilda Newtown : Walker Books Australia , 2022 24970383 2022 single work children's fiction children's

'L.M. Montgomery meets Ruth Park in a story of friendship, hope and resilience.

'You have a big heart. And people blessed with a big heart have a choice to make. Do they fill that heart with light and love or do they fill it with darkness and hate? This is your choice to make, Matilda. Make it wisely.

'Tilda Moss refuses to believe her papa has abandoned her and left her, alone and orphaned, in Brushwood Convent and Home for Girls, no matter what Sister Agatha says. A promise is a promise and Papa promised he would be back for her as soon as he returns from the war.

'But Tilda is convinced the dreadful Sister Agatha is out to get her. Why is she so hateful all the time? She insists that Matilda declare to all at the convent that she is an orphan. She is not an orphan and she will never say it! Something is amiss and Tilda and her best friend Annie need to find out what before it is too late.' (Publication summary)
2023 longlisted HNSA Historical Novel Prize — Children and young adult
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