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Jennifer Rowe explained her choice of pseudonym to Bookseller + Publisher's Jarrah Moore: 'Emily Rodda was my grandmother's maiden name, and my great-grandmother's married name'. (Bookseller + Publisher newsletter, 21 March 2011.)
Awards for Works
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Eliza Vanda's Button Box
Sydney
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HarperCollins Australia
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2021
21517107
2021
single work
children's fiction
children's
fantasy
'Buttons three, attend to me!
'Take me where I want to be!
'No one saw Eliza Vanda arrive in Tidgy Bay that rainy winter afternoon. The sign advertising 'Cabins for Rent' was almost hidden by a pile of builder's rubble, but Eliza Vanda didn't seem at all put out by the mess.
''This is a nice little pocket,' she said. 'It should suit us very well.'
'Life hasn't been much fun for Milly Dynes lately. There seem to be problems everywhere she looks. She's always loved her home in Tidgy Bay, but at the moment she wishes she was somewhere -anywhere - else.
'Then Eliza Vanda turns up—and magic comes with her ...
'A sparkling new fantasy adventure from multi-award-winning author Emily Rodda.' (Publication summary)
- 2022 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Eight to 10 Years
- 2022 winner APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book designed by Hazel Lam and Jessica Cruickshank.
- 2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
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The Glimme
Gosford
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Omnibus Books
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2019
16878115
2019
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Lone Annie sees dragons in your future. She sees giants. She sees fire and water. She sees death. Finn's life in the village of Wichant is hard. Only his drawings of the wild coastline, with its dragon-shaped clouds and headlands that look like giants, make him happy. Then the strange housekeeper from a mysterious clifftop mansion sees his talent and buys him for a handful of gold and then reveals to him seven extraordinary paintings. Finn thinks the paintings must be pure fantasy — such amazing scenes and creatures can't be real! He's wrong. Soon he is going to slip through the veil between worlds and plunge into the wonders and perils of The Glimme.' (Publication summary)
- 2021 shortlisted REAL Awards — Fiction for Older Readers
- 2020 longlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year — Children's Book of the Year
- 2020 honour book CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Younger Readers
- 2019 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Children's Division
- 2020 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
- 2020 longlisted Indie Awards — Children's
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His Name Was Walter
Sydney South
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HarperCollins Australia
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2018
13534394
2018
single work
children's fiction
children's
'While on a history excursion, an ill-assorted group of four kids and their teacher are left on a country road when their minibus breaks down. At the suggestion of a friendly tow-truck driver, the five take shelter in a nearby old, deserted mansion. There they find a little old desk with a secret drawer. Inside the drawer is a book containing a handwritten story and a series of vivid, strangely lifelike paintings. The book is called His Name Was Walter.
'The story begins: 'Once upon a time, in a dark city far away, there lived a boy called Walter, who had nothing but his name to call his own.' And so begins the tale of Walter - his lonely childhood, his flight from the haunted streets of the city, his discovery of Magda the witch, his quest to find Magda's lost daughter, and his meeting with the love of his life, the mysterious, tragic girl he calls Sparrow.
'As the night closes in around them and the story of Walter and Sparrow unfolds, the kids read it avidly.. Slowly the outer and inner stories begin to mesh. Slowly the story of Walter draws the five members of the group together. And in the end every one of the five plays a vital role in the uncovering of the truth.'
Source: Publilsher's blurb.
- 2021 nominated Sakura Medal (Japan) — English Chapter Books
- 2020 shortlisted West Australian Young Readers' Book Award — Younger Readers
- 2019 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Griffith University Children’s Book Award
- 2019 winner Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Children's Fiction
- 2019 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Children's Novel
- 2019 winner APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book
- 2019 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Younger Readers
- 2019 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
- 2018 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Young Adult Division — Novel