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Bernadette Kennedy

Bernadette Kennedy is descended from Irish, English and Scottish migrants who came to Victoria in the 1840s. After ten years as a teacher she crossed the Nullabor and has worked with the homeless and disadvantaged in Western Australia for the past twenty-five years. Active in peace and justice campaigns both locally and internationally, she takes pleasure in the writings of Simone Weil and the music of Mozart; in gardening, horse racing and Australian Rules football.

Books available from Fremantle Press

From the Catalogue

Dredgersaurus, The

by Kim Scott with illustrations by Peter Kendall

Wilderness Society Award

Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things