Katrina Germein

Katrina Germein is an Australian picture book author and early childhood educator. In 1997, while working in a remote Aboriginal community as a teacher, Germein wrote her first two picture books about her experiences. ^[1] By 2023 Germein had written over 20 picture books, with some published internationally. ^{[2] [3]}

Awards

• Won - Notable 2000 CBCA Book of The Year Award Longlist: Early Childhood for Big Rain Coming
• Won - Notable 2001 CBCA Book of The Year Award Longlist: Early Childhood for Leaving
• Won - Notable 2010 CBCA Book of The Year Award Longlist: Early Childhood for Baby Gets Dressed
• Highly Commended - 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and shortlisted in the REAL Awards, Koala Awards, Cool Awards & Yabba Awards for My Dad Thinks He's Funny ^[4]
• Shortlisted - Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards, 2014 for My Dad Still Thinks He’s Funny and My Mum Says the Strangest Things ^[5]
• Won - Notable 2016 CBCA Book of The Year Award Longlist: Early Childhood for Thunderstorm Dancing
• Shortlisted - Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards, 2016 for Baby Dance ^[5]
• Won - Notable 2018 CBCA Book of the Year Award Longlist: Early Childhood for Great Goal! Marvellous Mark! ^[6]
• Won - Speech Pathology Book of the Year Award 2019 for Let's Go Strolling by Katrina Germein and Danny Snell ^[7]
• Shortlisted - Speech Pathology Book of the Year Award 2022 for Before You Were Born
• Shortlisted - Speech Pathology Book of the Year Award 2023 for My Dad Thinks He's a Pirate, Wonderful Wasps and Baby Lou
• Won - SCBWI Crystal Kite Award 2023 and Honour book in CBCA Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood for Bev & Kev ^[8]
• Won - Notable 2024 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Longlist: Early Childhood for One Little Duck
• Shortlisted - CBCA Book of the Year Awards: Early Childhood, 2024 and Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards for One Little Duck

Works

Children's books

• Big Rain Coming (1999), illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft
• Leaving (2000), illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft
• Baby Gets Dressed (2009), illustrated by Sascha Hutchinson
• My Dad Thinks He's Funny (2010), illustrated by Tom Jellett
• Littledog (2011), illustrated by Tamsin Ainslie
• My Dad Still Thinks He's Funny (2013), illustrated by Tom Jellett
• Somebody's House (2013), illustrated by Anthea Stead
• My Mum Says the Strangest Things (2014), illustrated by Tom Jellett
• Thunderstorm Dancing (2015), illustrated by Judy Watson
• Baby Dance (2016), illustrated by Doris Chang
• Great Goal! Marvellous Mark! (2017), illustrated by Janine Dawson
• Let's Go Strolling (2018), illustrated by Danny Snell
• Shoo You Crocodile! (2019), illustrated by Tom Jellett
• My Dad Thinks He's Super Funny (2020), illustrated by Tom Jellett
• Tell 'Em (2020), written with Rosemary Sullivan and children from Manyallaluk School, illustrated by Karen Briggs
• Before You Were Born (2021), illustrated by Helene Magisson
• Bev & Kev (2022), illustrated by Mandy Foot
• My Dad Thinks He's a Pirate (2022), illustrated by Tom Jellett
• Baby Lou (2022), illustrated by Karen Blair
• One Little Duck (2023), illustrated by Danny Snell
• Little Book Baby (2024), illustrated by Cheryl Orsini
• My Dad Thinks He's a Scream (2024), illustrated by Tom Jellett

Non-Fiction

• Wonderful Wasps (2022), illustrated by Suzanne Houghton
• Fabulous Frogs (2024), illustrated by Suzanne Houghton

References

1. "Twinkl teaching wiki". www.twinkl.com.au. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
2. "Katrina Germein". SCBWI. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
3. "Katrina Germein". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
4. "Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
5. "Book of the Year". www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au. Archived from the original on 2023-06-16. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
6. "CBCA". www.cbca.org.au. Archived from the original on 2020-11-18. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
7. Mem: 10123584. "Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2019 winners announced | Books+Publishing" . Retrieved 2023-06-16.
8. "Crystal Kite award for Katrina Germein and Mandy Foot". SCBWI Australia East Blog. 2023-06-03. Retrieved 2023-06-17.

External links

• Official website
• Katrina Germein at AustLit