Alison Lester
Autor(a) de Imagine
About the Author
Alison Lester was born on November 17, 1952, in Foster, Victoria, Australia. She received a higher diploma in teaching at The Melbourne Teacher's College, where she trained as a secondary arts and crafts teacher. Before she began writing and illustrating her own books, she worked as an art teacher mostrar mais and an illustrator. She is the author and illustrator over 25 picture books. Her first novel, The Quicksand Pony, won an Australian Young Readers Book Award and a Children's Book Council of America (CBCA) Book of the Year Award. Her picture books Clive Eats Alligators and the Journey Home each won a CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award. She was Australia's Inaugural Children's Laureate from 2011-2012. In 2016, she was awarded the Children's Language and Literature Award from the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards and inducted into the Speech Pathology Australia's Book of the Year Hall of Fame. She was awarded the 2016 Dromkeen Medal for her body of work and its contribution to the development of children's literature in Australia. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras de Alison Lester
I'm Green and I'm Grumpy! 2 cópias
Who's That Knocking 2 cópias
Snore - talk to the Australian animals 1 exemplar(es)
Roar - talk to the wild animals 1 exemplar(es)
Pferdefreundinnen - Das Zirkuspony: Band 2 - PANAMA 1 exemplar(es)
Hoot - Talk to the night animals 1 exemplar(es)
Stell dir mal vor 1 exemplar(es)
The very best of Alison Lester 1 exemplar(es)
Ky nang thuyet trinh hieu qua 1 exemplar(es)
Splash - talk to the ocean animals 1 exemplar(es)
Who's that knocking? 1 exemplar(es)
Imagine: A Special 30th Anniversary Edition 1 exemplar(es)
Great big cuddle 1 exemplar(es)
I'm green and I'm grumpy 1 exemplar(es)
Bonnie & Sam: Saving MR Pinto/The Shadow Brumby/Racing the Tide/The Circus Pony (Bonnie & Sam Horse-Crazy!) (2008) 1 exemplar(es)
I'm Green and I'm Grumpy 1 exemplar(es)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Lester, Alison
- Data de nascimento
- 1952-11-17
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Australia
- Local de nascimento
- Foster, Victoria, Australia
- Locais de residência
- Nar Nar Goon North, West Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
- Educação
- Melbourne Teacher's College
- Ocupação
- children's book author
illustrator - Premiações
- Antarctic Arts Fellow
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Resenhas
Tricky's Bad Day de Alison Lester
From Cockburn Libraries (Australia): "Poor Tricky! Nothing is going right for him. Milk spills, pyjama buttons won't work, his little sister wrecks their game, and when he tries to help out, everything gets worse. Tricky's having a very bad day! Then Dad has an idea. Outside it's wild, but there's a lot to explore..."
Although Lippizaner stallions really were rescued from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna during WWII, this specific tale of nine-year-old Nina and her father Viktor is fictional. Nina's decision to bring an old cab horse called Zelda along with the four stallions when they flee the city and head for the border turns out to be one that saves their lives, and all five horses and two people make it to safety (although one wonders about the friend who guided them to the pass, and then turned back). Mixed media illustrations, including photographs, are truly special.… (mais)
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- Obras
- 92
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 3,632
- Popularidade
- #6,969
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 62
- ISBNs
- 361
- Idiomas
- 7