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Abyssinia ursula dubosarsky5/20/2023 In 2019 a study room at Marrickville Library was named in honour of her novel The Blue Cat. In 2018 the National Library of Australia published Midnight at the Library, illustrated by Ron Brooks, to celebrate the Library's 50-year anniversary. In 2014, the annual Christmas Windows of the department store David Jones were based on her story Reindeer's Christmas Surprise, and her book Too Many Elephants In this House, illustrated by Andrew Joyner, was chosen for the National Simultaneous Storytime. Her novel The Red Shoe is included in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up and is one of 200 significant works of Australian literature in the Copyright Agency's Reading Australia program. In the United States and Canada The Word Spy is published under the title The Word Snoop. These books have won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award and the Junior Judges' Award. She has also written three non-fiction "Word Spy" books for children, illustrated by Tohby Riddle, about language, grammar and etymology. She is the author of over 61 illustrated books and novels, which have been translated into 14 languages.
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