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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)
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
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
