Sandy Bigna Author
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📚 Writer/reader/reviewer 📚 Rep’d by @Jacinta_DiMase 📚Little Bones (MG) out with UQP now!! 👇🏼
Canberra
Joined January 2010
“#Versenovels tell stories in music, image, & breath, and provide quick-moving action along with deep dives into character. I talk a lot about the writing process in my interview in DIVERSE, and SPARK is my newest #mglit #novelinverse” - Chris Baron @baronchrisbaron
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If you are lover of Aussie picturebooks, this is not to be missed!
Exhibition alert! We are exhibiting complete artwork by Ann James & ms by Margaret Wild for this scrumptious picture book @UniCanberra 9-27 Feb 2026 @MoAD_Canberra @PETAAConnect @TheBookMuse1 @SandyBigna @LaraCainGray @WesteLinda
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Oh! Picking faves is so hard! The Guardian is running a poll opening 27 Jan for us to pick Australia's top 50 picture books. Here's the list - familiar? missing titles?🤩
theguardian.com
The readers have spoken and this list of books will comprise the best Australian children’s picture books poll in a few weeks
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I’m just over the moon that My Mum is a Bird has been highly commended in the 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards! @UQPbooks If you feel like giving it a boost, please vote my debut for People’s Choice Award! Appreciate it! https://t.co/HmPZeausAt
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LYRIKLINE one of my favourite poetry sites 1751 #poets 15819 #poems 95 languages 25478 #translations 3910 translators https://t.co/g8Bb8rnjv9
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Inspired by another's post, here's a dozen Aussie picture books for older readers about HOPE - you'll find 44 on hope in our free database https://t.co/DNuKURYe3G
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Oh wow lovely to see Little Bones here! @UQPbooks
Thank you @WaterstonesPicc London for listing #YA & #MG #versenovels by these Australians in your catalogue @SandyBigna @sherrylwriter @robbiecoburn @DeborahAbela @KComer_writer @ZanaFraillon @SharonKernot @sallymurphy @steven_herrick @SaundersKirli
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Heads up #VerseNovel enthusiasts, have you read SONG OF A THOUSAND SEAS (2025) and THE WAY OF DOG (2022) by author @zanafraillon - Teachers' notes on UQP website, and in Australia's world-first Verse Novel Resource. Enjoy! https://t.co/RcGqwz0HBz
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A new review for @harperkidsau @karenfoxleeauthor The Wondrous Tale of Lavender Wolfe by Karen Foxlee https://t.co/QpWjlDNYtc
https://t.co/tW81NotiAX
ashleighmeikle.com.au
Title: The Wondrous Tale of Lavender Wolfe Author: Karen Foxlee Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: 18th November 2025 Format: Hardback Pages: 400 Price: $24.99 Synopsis: An invent…
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Bookmail! Love the Christmas theme 🎄 Thank you so much @HarperKidsOz Have you read these ones yet?
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New UK Children’s Booker Prize open for entries from 2026. Winner receives $100,375. Prestige & $$ encourages writers to enter. Clearly kids matter - 3 adults+3 kids are the judges https://t.co/IRHF8Fqeux ...
thebookerprizes.com
The prize, to be awarded annually from 2027 and supported by AKO Foundation, will celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children aged eight to 12 years old
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Highlights from last weeks Canberra Writer’s Festival! Loved my panel chat with Lisa and Jasmin about all things magical realism/magic in kids books ✨ Also thrilled to meet brilliant poet @maxinebeneba 💕
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Great choices here 👏🏼
⭐️Congratulations to the winning books in the 2025 YABBA Awards – Fiction for Years 7-9! Congratulations to the authors and publishers!
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Congrats to all! 🎉✨
⭐️Congratulations to the winning books in the 2025 YABBA Awards!
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Librarians/teachers inc @PETAAConnect read online @NatCentAusChLit Resources for recent AUS #VerseNovels by @robbiecoburn @sherrylwriter @DeborahAbela @KComer_writer @ZanaFraillon @SharonKernot @sallymurphy @steven_herrick @SaundersKirli
sway.cloud.microsoft
The Australian Verse Novels Resource offers an insight into verse novels for children and young adults. As well as an extensive listing of verse novel titles: each title’s entry provides an annotation
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