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Alison Lester

Alison Lester
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Alison Lester

Alison Lester has written and illustrated numerous children’s books. She has won many awards in her native Australia, including the Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book Award. Over her twenty-one year career she has produced such Australian classics as the Clive Eats Alligators series, Magic Beach, Imagine, and My Farm, and recently she has also started writing novels, including The Quicksand Pony and the Bonnie and Sam series. In 2011, she was named the Australian Children’s Laureate.

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Noni the Pony will be released on October 30, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Oct 30, 2012
Noni the Pony is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Oct 30, 2012
Noni the Pony will be released on October 30, 2012 in eBook
Oct 30, 2012
Noni the Pony is now available in eBook
Oct 30, 2012
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Noni the Pony
Mar 14, 2012

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Bookseller Publisher, April 9, 2013
...Tanglewood (Vivienne Goodman, illus by Margaret Wild, Omnibus) Herman and Rosie (Gus Gordon, Viking) Sophie Scott Goes South (Alison Lester, Viking) Lightning Jack (Patricia Mullins, illus by Glenda Millard, Scholastic) A Day to Remember (Mark...
Belfast Telegraph, March 22, 2013
...Northern Ireland at the beginning of April. There are two Children's Laureates in Australia. The other is Alison Lester who will accompany Boori here. Throughout his life Boori (62) has had to find a way to be both a "blackfulla" and think like a...
CNTV, March 20, 2013
...Among the guest authors visiting China for the Australian Writers’ Week is Alison Lester, a best-selling and award-winning writer. Lester’s career spans over three decades. She is now an Australian Children’s Laureate, and the country’s...
Australia Punch, March 4, 2013
...head, embarrassed; at eight he?s already self-diagnosed himself as stupid. ?It?s a fruit, like an orange. The author, Alison Lester, thought tangerine sounded cooler than orange.? He laughs and we brainstorm a fruit bowl of boats: strawberry boats,...
Perth Now, February 28, 2013
...Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd - I'm Green and I'm Grumpy! by Alison Lester - Koala Lou by Mem Fox - There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake by Hazel Edwards - Big Rain Coming, by Katrina Germain - Belinda by...
New York Times, February 13, 2013
...Each demonstrates the pleasures of horses and ponies for children whose feet do not yet reach the stirrups. Alison Lester, an Australian author-illustrator and one of that countrys inaugural childrens laureates (along with Boori Monty Pryor), has written...
WA Today, February 8, 2013
...anniversary of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and features Hannie Rayson, Anthony Morgan, Robyn Davidson, Alison Lester, David Marr and Clare Bowditch, among others. Unfortunately, there is no truth in the rumour that Williams will once...
Adelaide Now, January 18, 2013
...advertisement for Australia is a 10-year-old children's book called Are We There Yet? by author and artist Alison Lester. As Australia Day is nearly upon us, it makes sense to think, not only about how we promote our country, but about how we learn...
Melbourne Age, January 4, 2013
...range for vegos and gluten-free diners. Out back is a concession to well known local children's author Alison Lester of Are We There Yet? fame. Here you can buy prints of her work and other quality merchandise. 132 Graham St, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm,...
Northumberland Today, December 18, 2012
...has referred his clients to a young lawyer who is actually a long-time friend of his daughter's, Alison Lester, who has set up practice at 35 King St. E. As for the next occupants of the house on Durham Street, one can only watch and wait. • •...
Herald Sun, December 8, 2012
...today, its Top 10 list of inspiring Victorians in 2012 also includes golfer Jarrod Lyle; children's author Alison Lester; courageous Paralympic long-jumper Kelly Cartwright; Kerry Packer doppelganger Lachy Hulme; health and safety campaigner and bereaved...
Arts Hub, November 8, 2012
...of The Miles Franklin Literary Award, was running against prominent finalists Robert Manne, playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, and writers Alison Lester and Peter Temple. Milller has previously won The Miles Franklin for Journey to the Stone Country (2003)...
Arts Hub, November 8, 2012
...of The Miles Franklin Literary Award, was running against prominent finalists Robert Manne, playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, and writers Alison Lester and Peter Temple. Milller has previously won The Miles Franklin for Journey to the Stone Country (2003)...
Esperance Express, November 8, 2012
...— and it is not limited to fiction. The other writers on the shortlist were children's writer Alison Lester, political and social commentator Robert Manne, playwright Joanna Murray-Smith and crime writer Peter Temple. The previous winners were Helen...