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Elizabeth Honey is an Australian author, illustrator and poet, known predominantly for her work in picture books and middle-grade novels. Her work has been translated into Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Catalan, Hungarian and Spanish, and has also been published in the United States and Britain.
She won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book for Not a Nibble. She also received the Prize Cento and the Young Australians Best Book Award (YABBA) for 45 & 47 Stella Street and everything that Happened. In 2001 she was the recipient of the Australian Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature.
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Life and career
Honey was born in Wonthaggi, Victoria in 1947. The third of four children, she grew up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. An avid reader as a child, after high school she went on to study at the Swinburne School of Film and Television in Melbourne (later to become the Victorian College of Arts). After several years working in film production and advertising, as well as extensive travel, she began to work as a freelance illustrator. Illustrating for newspapers like The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, as well as providing stamp illustrations for Australia Post, she discovered she enjoyed illustrating children's books the most.
In 1988, Princess Beatrice and the Rotten Robber was published, her first book as both author and illustrator. She has since become an iconic voice in Australian children's literature, going on to author and illustrate a breadth of award winning children's novels, poetry collections, as well as picture books for children of all ages. She is known for writing that is "characteristically humorous and inventive, and features outspoken characters".
Picture books
Princess Beatrice and the Rotten Robber (1988)
The Cherry Dress (1993)
Not a Nibble! (1996)
The Moon in the Man (2003)
I'm still awake, still! (2008)
That's not a daffodil! (2011)
Ten Blue Wrens and what a lot of wattle! (2011)
Poetry
Honey Sandwich (1993)
Mongrel Doggerel (1998)
Novels
Don't Pat the Wombat, illustrated by Gig Clarke (1996)
What Do You Think Feezal? (1997)
Remote Man (2000)
Stella Street series
45 & 47 Stella Street and Everything That Happened (1995)
Fiddleback (1998)
The Ballad of Cauldron Bay (2004)
To the Boy in Berlin with Heike Brandt (2007)
Activity books
The Book of Little Books (1994)
Works as illustrator
S.C.A.B., by Manny Clarke (1975)
The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race, by Morris Lurie (1977)
Puzzles Galore!, by Meryl Brown Tobin (1978)
Snakes Alive!, by Maureen Stewart (1978)
So What's New?, by Bettina Bird (1978)
Gone Children, by Phyllis Harry (1978)
Gino and Dan, by Carolyn Marrone (1979)
Us Three Kids, by Bettina Bird (1979)
Call It Quits, by Bettina Bird (1979)
Fame and Misfortune, by John Jones (1979)
Feel, Value, Act, by Laurie Brady (1979)
Growing things: Nature Study Ideas for the Primary School, by Brian McKinlay (1979)
Mexican Beans, by L. M. Napier (1980)
All Change at the Station, by Susan Burke (1980)
Barney, Boofer, and the Cricket Bat, by Judith Worthy (1980)
More Puzzles Galore!, by Meryl Brown Tobin (1980)
Themes through the Year, by Cathy Hope (1981)
The Tucker Book, by Jessie Apted (1981)
Salt River Times, by William Mayne (1982)
Flora's Treasures, by Ted Greenwood (1982)
Brave with Ben, by Christobel Mattingley (1982)
History Alive: Introducing Children to History around Them, by Brian McKinlay (1983)
Melissa's Ghost, by Michael Dugan (poet) (1986)
Boiler at Breakfast Creek, by Roger Vaughan Carr (1986)
The Prize, by Helen Higgs (1986)
I Don't Want to Know: Towards a Healthy Adolescence, by Ted Greenwood (1986)
Outdoors for Kids, by Brian McKinlay (1987)
Energy for Kids, by Gilbert Tippett (1987)
Trees for Kids, by Ian Edwards (1988)
Oh No! Not Again, by Linda Allen (1989)
Dream Time: New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors, edited by Toss Gascoigne, Jo Goodman and Margot Terrell (1991)
No Gun for Asmir, by Christobel Mattingley (1993)
Asmir in Vienna, by Christobel Mattingley (1995)
Awards and honours
1994
Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers, Honour Book for Honey Sandwich
1996
Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers, Honour Book for 45 & 47 Stella Street and everything that happened
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, National Children's Literature Award shortlist for 45 & 47 Stella Street and everything that happened
1997
Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book for Not a Nibble
Prize Cento for Children's Literature (Italy) for 45 & 47 Stella Street and everything that happened
Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBA) Victoria: Children's Choice Award – Fiction for Older Readers for 45 & 47 Stella Street and everything that happened
Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers, Honour Book for Don't Pat The Wombat!
Children Reading Outstanding Writers (CROW) South Australia: Children's Choice Award – years 3–5 for Don't Pat The Wombat!
1998
COOL Award, Fiction for Older Readers shortlist for 45 & 47 Stella Street and everything that happened
COOL Award, Fiction for Older Readers shortlist for Don't Pat The Wombat!
1999
Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA) New South Wales: Children's Choice Award finalist for Not a Nibble and 45 & 47 Stella Street and everything that happened
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards shortlist for What do you think, Feezal?
2000
Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA) New South Wales: Children's Choice Award finalist for Not a Nibble
Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBA) Victoria: Children's Choice Awards shortlist for Honey Sandwich
Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA) New South Wales: Children's Choice Award finalist for 45 & 47 Stella Street and everything that happened
West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA), shortlist for Fiddle-back
Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA) New South Wales: Children's Choice Award shortlist for Don't Pat The Wombat!
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, National Children's Literature Award shortlist for What do you think, Feezal?
2001
The Wilderness Society (Australia) Environment Award for Children's Literature for Remote Man
Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBA) Victoria: Children's Choice Awards shortlist for Don't Pat The Wombat!
West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA), shortlist for What do you think, Feezal?
2002
West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA), shortlist for Remote Man
2003
Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood, Notable Book for The Moon in the Man
APRA Music Awards of 2003: Most Performed Jazz Work, Nominated with Susan Johnson and Coco's Lunch for "All the Wild Wonders", a poem adapted to song from The Moon in the Man
Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Prize): Kinderbuch (Children's book) section shortlist for Remote Man, German title: Salamander I'm Netz
Selection to the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age List for Remote Man
2005
Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers, Notable Book for The Ballad of Cauldron Bay
Australian Psychological Society: Children's Peace Literature Award, shortlist for The Ballad of Cauldron Bay
2008
Australian Publishers Design Awards: Best Designed Book for Young Adults for To the Boy in Berlin with Heike Brandt
Selection to The White Ravens Catalog of the International Youth Library in Munich, for To the Boy in Berlin with Heike Brandt
2009
Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award: Young Children's shortlist for I'm still awake, still!
West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA), shortlist for To the Boy in Berlin with Heike Brandt
2012
Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood, Honour Book for That's not a daffodil!
Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood, Notable Book for Ten Blue Wrens and what a lot of wattle!
Prime Minister's Literary Awards: Children's Fiction, shortlist for Ten Blue Wrens and what a lot of wattle!
Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award: Young Children's shortlist for Ten Blue Wrens and what a lot of wattle!
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards: Best Children's Book, shortlist for Ten Blue Wrens and what a lot of wattle!
