![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We might give each other a coded nod as we pass in airport terminals. It’s a cliché to note a global community but still true: here is an international, multilingual country built on stories and daydreams, inclusive of both big and small people, of writers and illustrators, open to both the profound and absurd. ![]() I realized too that this was not just the case in Perth, my very remote hometown, but also in Melbourne, Sydney, and - as it turns out - the United States and other places. One of my early discoveries as a freelance illustrator, folio in hand, unemployed and clueless, was that the world of children’s literature was filled with so many friendly, welcoming, witty people fascinated by wild, crazy ideas people for whom playfulness is actually a profession. What a fantastic honor to have won a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and to be in such good company: not only of book creators whose work I love and have been inspired by, but also of avid librarians, readers, editors, teachers, and all those other good book people. ![]()
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