– Lists! Argh! has recently been longlisted for the 2020 Australian Book Design award. It’s also made the CBCA 2020 Notable books list. So I’m happy. Update: it’s won the Best Designed Children’s Illustrated Book and the Designers’ Choice Children’s/Young Adult Book of the Year categories at the 2020 Australian Book Design Awards. Hooray for Julian!
– Book launch! August 7 2019 in Melbourne:
– Podcast Science for the People talked to me about the immune system. They asked really good questions, I reckon.
– Just arrived from the printers: Julian Frost’s and my new children’s book, titled Argh! There’s a Skeleton Inside You! As unlike Fifty Shades of Grey as you can possibly imagine, and featuring an all-alien cast of characters, it should hit bookshops in Australia in August this year. The US version is coming out in 2020, as are Chinese, Polish, German and Hebrew translations.
– Here’s a fun quiz/survey thing I made up: Test yourself: are you a writer?
– The Slovenian edition of Do Not Lick This Book (published by Mis as Ne liži te knjige) was awarded The Golden Pear award 2018 for best translated non-fiction book in Slovenia.
– Do Not Lick This Book has won the Children’s Book Council of Australia 2018 Eve Pownall award for Information books. We’re pretty chuffed.
– In September 2018 I gave a talk, as part of the 2018 Yarra Plenty Booklovers Festival, on how to write picture books. I told them I’d only written the one picture book but they said they’d have me anyway.
Artist and graphic recorder Zahra Zainal was in the audience, and after the talk was over she sent me these:
– Do Not Lick This Book has been selected as the Best First Nonfiction Book in the Parents Magazine 10th Annual Best Children’s Books list, appearing in its November 2018 issue.