IBBY Australia Mini Masterpiece art Auction meet Liz Duthie

Wombat

Liz Duthie’s illustrations are earthy and realistic, capturing the curiosity and charm of Australia’s much-loved wombat. They complement the text focusing on the wombat’s unique way of life and endearing quirks. My favourite illustration is the image of a wombat staring from the front cover 

through a heart-shaped burrow. Reading Time

Liz Duthie is an internationally published children's book illustrator, visual artist and art educator based in Djaara Country, (Castlemaine, Victoria). Her first picture book, “Wombat” by Christopher Cheng, (Walker Books Australia and Candlewick Press, USA, 2021) received a Royal Zoological Society of NSW Whitley Award Commendation and was a 2022 CBCA Notable Book in the Eve Pownall Category. In 2019 Liz spoke to Kids' Book Review. You can see more of her work here. 

We have three pieces of original art by Liz Duthie available on the IBBY Australia Mini Masterpiece art Auction which ends on 1st December at 11.45pm. 

"Muriel's Flight" an unpublished story idea about Australian Suffragist, Muriel Matters

Muriel Matters gained notoriety by chaining herself to an iron grille in the ladies' gallery of the House of Commons and declaiming women's suffrage aims. She was removed, still attached to the grille, 

and sent to Holloway Prison for a month ...

Read more about Murial Matters here - History Extra and in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. 

Here is another sketch by Liz Duthie showing a protest by Suffragettes. 

From Will the Wonderkid Treasure Hunter of the Australian outback

From Marvellous Miss May and the Wondrous Circus Here is a review

Image Source: Stephanie Owen Reeder

The two images above are pen and ink sketches from "Courageous Kids and their Amazing Adventures" 

by Stephanie Owen Reeder, published by National Library of Australia

Courageous Kids and Their Amazing Adventures by Stephanie Owen Reeder is published by the National Library of Australia. It is a brand-new book published in November 2023. The Heritage Heroes series celebrates stories of incredible survival, persistence and resilience by young people. This book binds together the five original, beloved stories with two brand new ones:

• Brave Bee and the Castaway Kids, set in the Circular Head area and on Trefoil Island in Bass Strait in lutruwita/Tasmania in 1895 (Belinda Kay)
• Will the Wonderkid and the Elusive Treasure, set in the desert near Coober Pedy in South Australia (Cokatha Country) from 1914 to 1915 (Will Hutchison)
• Amazing Grace and the Sinking Ship, set in the Margaret River Region of Western Australia (Wooditchup and Noongar Country) in 1876 (Grace Bussell)
• Lennie the Legend and the Remarkable Ride, starting in Leongatha in the Gippsland area of Victoria (Bunurong Country) in 1931 and ending in Sydney in New South Wales (Eora Country) in 1932 (Lennie Gwyther)
• Marvellous Miss May and the Wondrous Circus, set in Australia, New Zealand and England from 1900 to 1913 (May Wirth)
• Clever Quong Tart and the New Gold Mountain, set in Canton, China and Braidwood in New South Wales (Walbunja Country) from 1859 to 1870 (Mei Quong Tart)
• Valiant Jane and the Disappearing Trail, set in the Wimmera District of Victoria (Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagulk Country) in 1864 (Jane Duff)

I am also very keen to read this book illustrated by Liz Duthie - Captain Thunderbolt’s Recital by Jane Jolly. I always enjoyed talking about Bushrangers and reading fiction and Nonfiction books with my Grade Five students.

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