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| Narelle Oliver |
Over the week of November 10 - 14, WAB's PTA and Friends of the Libraries will present the annual PTA Book Fair and welcome two visiting authors--Narelle Oliver, an award-winning illustrator of children's books, and author/illustrator Sally Rippin, who writes for both children and young adults. Natalie will spend the week conducting workshops for ECC and ES students, while Sally will hold writing workshops, readings and other literary events with students in the MS.
Two Book Fairs will be held on campus. ECC and ES students will have the opportunity to shop for books in the ES Library, while MS and HS students, as well as adults, will find novels, graphic novels, non-fiction and more for sale in the MS Library. More details will be shared closer to the date.
In the meantime, ES and MS parents might enjoy learning more about the visiting authors (see brief biographies below). Copies of the authors' books will be available for purchase during Book Week.
Narelle Oliver was born and brought up in Australia. Narelle's books have been inspired by natural environments with birds figuring prominently. In the early 1980s, she traveled with her environmental scientist husband. She's quoted as saying, "We explored many national parks on the east coast of Australia and I became convinced that there was a need for picture book stories about the many fascinating and less well-known Australian animals in their own unique habitats."
Narelle is the author and illustrator of a number of award-winning children's picture books including: Leaf Tail, High Above the Sea, The Best Beak in Boonaroo Bay, The Hunt, Sand Swimmers, Baby Bilby Where Do You Sleep?, Mermaids Most Amazing, The Very Blue Thingamagig, Dancing the Book-Cha-Cha Boogie, and Home.
Australian writer and illustrator Sally Rippin grew up in many countries, and also studied Chinese traditional painting for three years in Shanghai. She has written and illustrated nine children’s books, illustrated eleven picture books by other authors and written two young adult novels. Her time in China has provided a location for some of her books and her multicultural upbringing and homeland influences the diversity of people written about and illustrated. Books by Sally Rippin include the following.
Written and Illustrated:
The Magic Mirror (Lothian/Hachette Giggles, 2007)
My Best Friend Is A Vampire (Penguin/Aussie Bite, 2006)
The Really Big Food Project (Curriculum Corporation, 2004)
A Baby Brother For Little Bean (Scholastic, 2000)
The Longest Noodle Ever (Scholastic, 2000)
Twin Trouble (Omnibus Books, 2000)
What a Mess, Fang Fang! (Omnibus Books 1998)
Fang Fang's Chinese New Year (Omnibus Books, 1996) Winner of the CBCA Crichton Award for illustration
Speak Chinese, Fang Fang! (Omnibus Books, 1996)
Illustrated:
The Search of Fred Beany, by Kate Ryan (Lothian, 2007)
The Rainbirds by David Metzenthen (Lothian, 2006), Honour Book CBCA Awards, Shortlisted for the APA Book Design Awards
Barking by Jenni Overend (Lothian/Start-Up, 2005)
Becoming Buddha - The Story of Siddhartha by Whitney Stewart (Lothian, 2005)
What Makes Me Me by Stacey McLeary (Lothian, 2005)
When It Is Time by Stacey McLeary (Lothian, 2004)
Too Many Monkeys by Margaret Wild (Omnibus, 2004)
Gezani and The Tricky Baboon by Valanga Khoza (Allen & Unwin, 2003), Shortlisted for the APA Book Design Awards, Shortlisted for the Bilby Awards, Shortlisted for the 'Speech Pathology Australia' Book of the YearY
Young Adult:
Leopard Skin (Lothian, 2003)
Chenxi and The Foreigner (Lothian, 2002; 2008 revised edition), CBCA Notable Book