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Meg McKinlay

Meg McKinlay is a children’s writer and poet who lives in Fremantle. She grew up in a car-free home and is a great lover of walking. It’s how she starts the day. It’s how she keeps the dog happy. It’s how she shakes ideas loose when she’s stuck on a story. And as much as possible, it’s how she gets from here to there and back again. The idea for Ten Tiny Things came from a game she devised with her daughter, which is cunningly entitled, ‘Things We Would Never Have Seen If We Had Been Driving’.

Awards

Winner, SCBWI Crystal Kite Award, 2013
Shortlisted, Children’s Book Council Awards, 2012
Shortlisted, Davitt Awards, 2012
Shortlisted, Children’s Book Council Awards, 2011

Books available from Fremantle Press

Other Books by this Author

  • The Truth About Penguins
  • Duck for a Day
  • No Bears

Website

From the Catalogue

Groovy Granny

by Cate Haynes with illustrations by Shane Tholen

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