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WA Premier's Awards Nobody Owns the Moon has been shortlisted for the Western Australia Premier's Literary Awards. Edinburgh International Book Festival Tohby Riddle will be Illustrator-in-Residence at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (August 14–30, 2010). His presentations include a session on his books The Great Escape from City Zoo (featured in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up) and his soon-to-be-released picture book, My Uncle's Donkey. More information, including the festival programme, is available at the festival website. Here in September! My Uncle's Donkey, a long-awaited new picture book by Tohby Riddle. Will be released in Australia in September 2010 (30 August, actually) by Penguin Books. More details soon. Bundanon Trust residency, August 2010 Tohby Riddle will be Bundanon Trust's 2010 Book Week artist-in-residence, which includes presenting sessions to the public on the 4th and 9th of August. For more information about this and the Bundanon Trust (Arthur Boyd's NSW south coast property and estate gifted to the Australian people) visit their website. Cairns Ukulele Festival As part of a fund-raising initiative for the Duchenne Foundation, Tohby Riddle has painted a ukulele featuring the character from his upcoming book My Uncle's Donkey (September 2010). Ukuleles painted by a range of artists and illustrators will be auctioned on Ebay after 25 June. More information here. Tune into GO! TV (7 AM, Sunday 20 June) to see Tohby Riddle and Ursula Dubosarsky appear on Kid's WB Sunday, in separate segments and together, being very Word Spy-ish. NEW BOOK! The Return of The Word Spy The hugely popular Word Spy returns in a journey that goes Word Spy presentations Ursula Dubosarsky and Tohby Riddle will be giving their unique New Dog and Bird board book The third book in the Dog and Bird board-book series, Dog and Bird Symbols of Australia Tohby Riddle's picture book The Royal Guest is cited in a new book titled Symbols of Australia edited by Melissa Harper and Richard White (New South Books, 2010).The Royal Guest is referred to at length, including a reproduced illustration, in a chapter titled 'Crown'. ABC Classics CD artwork Tohby Riddle has created the cover and booklet artwork for a new ABC Classics CD released in November 2009, titled Carnival of the Animals: A Parade of Kids' Classics. It features the music of Saint-Saens (Carnival of the Animals), Prokofiev (Peter and the Wolf), Poulenc (Barbar the Elephant) and Australian composer George Dreyfus (Sebastian the Fox), with narrations by Justine Clarke, Jay Laga'aia and Georgie Parker. To find out more, visit the ABC Shop. See the cover artwork come to life in the TV promo here. New book on Australian children's literature Tohby Riddle's picture book The Great Escape from City Zoo is featured in a new and richly illustrated hardcover book titled Bottersnikes and Other Lost Things: A Celebration of Australian Illustrated Children's Books by Juliet O'Conor (Melbourne University Press, 2009). 1001 Children's Books … Tohby Riddle's picture book The Great Escape from City Zoo New Dog and Bird board book Dog and Bird Water the Garden (Puffin Books), a 24-page board book for the very young, is out now (October 2009). This title is the second of four Dog and Bird books scheduled for release in this format. The next one, currently titled Dog and Bird and the Caterpillar is scheduled for release in 2010. Nobody Owns the Moon stage show The
hugely enjoyable stage show of Nobody Owns the Moon, Visual Literacy Seminar, State Library NSW Tohby
Riddle will be presenting a seminar on his work, titled "Imagining
Worlds" at the State Library of NSW on Wednesday Board book series launched Dog and Bird Follow a Butterfly, a 24-page board book for the very young, was released August 2009 by Puffin Books (Penguin). This title is the first of four Dog and Bird books that will be released in this format. The next one, Dog and Bird Water the Garden is scheduled for release in late October. Nobody Owns the Moon wins design award Nobody Owns the Moon has won Best Designed Children's Picture Book in the Australian Publishers' Association Awards for Book Design 2009 (announced on 21 May). This is Tohby Riddle's second APA award for book design. The Word Spy wins Premier's Literary Award The
Word Spy (written by Ursula Dubosarsky and illustrated by Tohby Riddle)
has won the Patricia Wrightson Prize at the 2009 Sydney Writers' Festival 2009 For those interested in learning more about creating picture books, Tohby Riddle will be running two full-day workshops at The State Library on 16th and 17th of May, as part of the Festival. He will also be making two other appearances. Check the program for details. Children's Book Council of Australia Awards Nobody Owns the Moon has been shortlisted for the 2009 CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award, and The Word Spy has been shortlisted for the 2009 CBCA Eve Pownall Award for Information Books. Young adult novel is now out! The Lucky Ones, a novel by Tohby Riddle, was for released at the end of March 2009 (published by Penguin Books). More here, including special extras and reviews. NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2009 Nobody Owns the Moon and The Word Spy have both been shortlisted for the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards for 2009. The announcement was made on 24 March. Junior Library Guild Selection Ahead of its release in the United States, The Word Snoop (aka The Word Spy in Australia) has been designated a "Junior Library Guild Selection" for Spring 2009. APA Book Design Awards Nobody Owns the Moon and The Word Spy have been shortlisted in the Australian Publishers' Association Awards for Book Design 2009. Somerset Festival Tohby Riddle appeared
at the Somerset Celebration of High quality limited-edition prints High quality limited-edition
prints from Tohby Riddle's New picture book Nobody
Owns the Moon was released in September 2008 Illustrated
Notes on Nobody Owns the Moon Korean picture book festival Nobody Owns the Moon has been selected as a finalist in an international picture book festival in Seoul, Korea. The CJ Picture Book Festival is exhibiting 100 finalists chosen from 1426 books entered from 46 countries. The exhibition is being held at the Sungkok Museum till early March. Keynote address On
14 November 2008, Tohby Riddle gave the keynote address Premier's Reading Challenge Tohby
Riddle appeared at the reception for the 2009 Premier's Recent re-issues The Royal Guest This 1990s cult favourite about the Queen being billeted on a royal tour of Australia by a friendly and hospital Mrs Jones of Padstow has finally returned in a new softcover edition, published by Penguin Books Australia. The Great Escape from City Zoo Before Madagascar
there was The Great Escape from City Zoo: The Great Escape from City Zoo has also recently been published by Marubol in South Korea. A Chinese edition is also due for release.
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