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Leonie Young Leonie Young i(A51327 works by)
Gender: Female
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Leonie Young's father was a publisher, and her mother was an enthusiastic story teller. Young wanted to tell her own children true stories from history, and that is why she wrote her first history book for children, I Wish I'd Sailed with Captain Cook. She has lived at Narrabeen Beach in NSW.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon I Wish I'd Gone to the Moon with Neil Armstrong Willoughby : Weldon Kids , 1994 Z967821 1994 single work picture book children's

'There lived a boy named Neil Armstrong. He was born on his grandparents' farm, in the state of Ohio, in the United States of America.' (Publication summary)
1995 joint winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Crichton Award for Debut Illustrator Won by Astri Baker for the illustrations of the work: I Wish I'd Gone to the Moon with Neil Armstrong.
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