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Kate McCaffrey
Kate grew up in Perth’s northern suburbs. She always wanted to be a writer and dreamed of the day she’d see a novel with her name on it in a bookshop. After teaching English to kids who hated reading, she decided she would write books that those kids would want to read (or even if they didn’t want to, would at least say ‘it was s’alright’). She lives on eleven acres with her partner Jason, two daughters, two dogs, a cat, a rabbit and six chickens. She still teaches English and is constantly writing stories.
Awards
Winner, Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature, 2008
Highly Commended, Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature, 2007
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, 2007
Notable Book, Children’s Book Council of Australia, 2007
Winner, West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award, 2007
Books available from Fremantle Press
- Beautiful Monster 2010
- Beautiful Monster ebook 2010
- In Ecstasy 2008
- In Ecstasy ebook 2008
- Destroying Avalon ebook 2006
- Destroying Avalon 2006
Website
From the Catalogue
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