Congratulations to Lian Tanner, whose junior fiction book
A Clue for Clara
published by Allen & Unwin in August last year has been shortlisted for Best Children's Crime Novel in the 2021 Davitt Awards for crime and mystery books by Australian women.
Lian Tanner's new junior novel
Congrats to Lian Tanner on the publication of
A Clue for Clara
Illustrated by Cheryl Orsini
Published by Allen and Unwin, in paperback
For ages 8 - 12.
Clara wants to be a famous detective. She can read claw marks, find missing feathers and knows Morse code and semaphore.
There’s just one problem. She’s a small, scruffy chook, and no one takes her seriously.
Can a scruffy chicken crack a crime? Perhaps, if she’s a genius like Clara. An egg-cellent novel about a small chook and a big crime by the highly acclaimed author of ‘Ella and the Ocean’.
Delicious! Congrats again Lian!
Lian Tanner wins Patricia Wrighton Prize
Huge congrats to Lian Tanner on winning the
2020 Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature
in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
for her picture book
Ella and the Ocean
Illustrated by Jonathan Bentley
Published by Allen and Unwin, in hardback
For ages 4 - 6.
Ella and the Ocean is a very Australian story of drought and renewal, of family, imagination and the power of hope.
What an honour - congrats again Lian!