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Michael Dahl

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Michael Dahl is the author of more than 200 books for children and young adults. His nonfiction has won the AEP Distinguished Achievement Award three times. His Finnegan Zwake mystery series published by Simon & Schuster won rave reviews and two of its titles were shortlisted for the Edgar and the Anthony Mystery Awards. He has written The Everything Kid's Joke Book as well as Gotcha Covered! (with Kathleen Baxter from School Library Journal) on nonfiction books that get kids excited about reading. Dahl is the Editorial Director for Stone Arch Books based in Minneapolis, where his books have won national design...

Bren MacDibble

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HOW TO BEE published by Allen & Unwin in Australia and NZ in 2017,by Old Barn Books in the UK in 2018,and by Groundwood in North America in 2020.Winner: Children's Book Council of Australia Award, 2018Winner: New Zealand Book Award, 2018Winner: Patricia Wrightson Prize, NSW Premiers Awards, 2018Shortlisted: Queensland Literary PrizeShortlisted: South Australian Festival Literary PrizeShortlisted: Aurealis AwardShortlisted: Ditmar AwardBren lives and travels Australia in a bus and half her life is spent knocking red dust out of her keyboard. Look out for her new book in 2019 - The Dog Runner.