IBBY Australia Mini Masterpiece Art Auction two chickens and a duck

Take a look at our wonderful selection of original art.

This is a fantastic opportunity and 

you will be supporting IBBY Australia

Do you love chickens?  My own favourite animals are puffins, pelicans, hedgehogs, and cows but I do have fond memories of chickens in the backyard of a country home where my family lived for a few months when I was a small child. Collecting the warm eggs fascinated me. If you want to see heaps of picture books about chickens, take a look at my Pinterest. I also love ducks - there are so many that live along the shore of the lagoon near my home.

Ann James

Jess McGeachin

My favourite book by Jess McGeachin is Fly 

but he has so many others - click the label on this post

Lucia Masciullo

Check out my post about Eat my Dust which has links to 

lots of other books illustrated by Lucia

IBBY Australia Mini Masterpiece Art Auction - so many birds

Have you visited our Auction page?  
The bidding begins in just over two weeks. 

Head there now to find your favourites

Aura Parker

Check out my post about this series of wonderful bowerbird books

Bridget Farmer

Here is my post about The Bush Birds

Erica Wagner

Check out my post about Erica's latest book

Evie Barrow

This image is from My Mum is a Bird

Jess Racklyeft

Check out my Meet the Illustrator post

Marc Martin

Check out my post about his newest book All about Antarctica

IBBY Australia Mini Masterpiece art Auction

 

Visit the auction site to see over 40 pieces of original art

We need your support. Following the success of our inaugural 2023 fundraiser, we will once again be running Mini Masterpieces to raise funds for the Australian branch of the International Board on Books for Young People, IBBY Australia. We have invited celebrated Australian children’s book illustrators to donate post-card sized artworks for an online auction. You could OWN one of these gorgeous pieces - we have over 40 on offer. 

Ann James, Renee Treml, and Peter Carnavas

Formed in 1966, IBBY Australia is one of 82 National sections of IBBY, and each year must pay a membership fee of almost $10 000 to remain part of the international IBBY organisation.

IBBY was established following the Second World War and aims to build bridges to international understanding through children’s books. As you may be aware, IBBY Australia promotes Australian authors and illustrators by submitting their work for several IBBY administered international awards, including:

• The Hans Christian Andersen Award

• IBBY Honour Book List

• The Silent Books collection 

• The Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities list 

You can read more about IBBY and about IBBY Australia.

The Mini Masterpieces auction will run from 14 November to 28 November, with the original artworks promoted as a unique Christmas gift. Each piece will have a reserve of $75.

Nicky Johnston