Katrina Germein

Katrina Germein
Occupation	Picture book author Early childhood educator
Genre	Children's literature Picture books
Years active	1997–present
Notable works	Big Rain Coming My Dad Thinks He's Funny Bev & Kev One Little Duck
Notable awards	Speech Pathology Book of the Year Award (2019) SCBWI Crystal Kite Award (2023)

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