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Anna Pignataro Anna Pignataro i(A59713 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Anna completed her art college studies in Melbourne and has worked in graphic design and teaching, and painted murals for theatre plays and shops. Anna won the Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration in 1998, and was shortlisted for Picture Book of the Year by the Children's Book Council of Australia in 1999 and by YABBA in 2000. Anna's books were selected as CBCA Notable Books in 2001, 2004 and 2005.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Other works not individually indexed include: 

    The Little Fairy Book board book series.

Personal Awards

2016 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Australia Council Literature Board Grants Literature Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups $34,000.00
1998 joint winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards Crichton Award for Debut Illustrator Won by Anna Pignataro for the illustrations for the selected work of short stories for children I'm in the Sky and I Can't Come Back

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon A Thousand Kisses from Mummy Lindfield : Scholastic Australia , 2020 18673873 2020 single work picture book children's

'A kiss to wake me from my sleep, then more to treasure and to keep. And Im as happy as can be, A thousand kisses, all for me! A beautiful story that is full to the brim with kisses.'  (Publication summary) 

2021 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards Birth to 3 Years
y separately published work icon A Thousand Kisses from Mummy Lindfield : Scholastic Australia , 2020 18673873 2020 single work picture book children's

'A kiss to wake me from my sleep, then more to treasure and to keep. And Im as happy as can be, A thousand kisses, all for me! A beautiful story that is full to the brim with kisses.'  (Publication summary) 

2021 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards Birth to 3 Years
y separately published work icon MoonFish MoonFish : Poems to Make You Think and Laugh Abbotsford : Ford Street , 2019 15508423 2019 poetry picture book children's

'Children will love the humour and catchy rhymes of the twenty-nine poems featuring manic TVs, monsters and everything in between.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2019 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards Eight to 10 Years
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