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I have lots of new books coming out this year, including a series called A Year in Girl Hell. Visit the BOOKS page to see details of the first of these.

A Year in Girl Hell:
#1 Crushed (available February)
#2 Dumped (available May)
# 3 Burned (available July)
#4 Trashed (available September)

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Picture Books

My Baby Love
(available April)

Bed Tails
(available July)

Here’s a sneak preview of the cover!

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Meet your Grand Dragon!

dragon

I’m very chuffed to be the current Grand Dragon at Dromkeen. One of the best parts is getting to wear the official robes and tail on ceremonial occasions! Roarrrr!

  CBC Awards


Doodledum Dancing has won an Honour Book award in the Early Childhood category of the 2007 Children’s Book Council of Australia awards.

Dates for 2008

Meredith will be presenting sessions at the following festivals and conferences in 2008:

February 23-24
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators International Conference in Sydney

March 12-14
Somerset Celebration of Literature on the Gold Coast

May 1-4
Children’s Book Council National Conference in Melbourne

May 22-25
Children’s Literature in the Centre (CLIC) Festival in Alice Springs

September
Meredith will be taking up a four week May Gibbs Creative Time Residential Fellowship at the Norwood studio in Adelaide. During this time she will present writing workshops at Seymour College.

2007 Australian Awards for Excellence in Publishing

Comet, Explore and Challenge magazines have been shortlisted in the Primary Literacy Series section of the 2007 Australian Awards for Excellence in Publishing, coordinated by the Australian Publishers' Association. Meredith is the literary editor for the magazines, and editor of Comet.


 Intervention Works

Literacy series Intervention Works has been short listed for the 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers in the USA. Meredith has four titles in the series:

   Simple Machines
   Marvelous Mexico
   Carson Street Hockey
   The Luge Race



  

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