Mother Earth: Poems to Celebrate the Wonder of Nature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780734421555)

Libby Hathorn (Author)
Libby Hathorn is an award-winning author and poet of more than eighty books for children, young adults, and adult readers. Her recent picture book No! Never!, written with her daughter Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, won the CBCA Children's Picture Book of the Year Award, Younger Readers, 2021. Translated into several languages and adapted for both stage and screen, her work has won honours in Australia, the United States, Great Britain and Holland. She is the recipient of the ABIA Pixie O'Harris Award, 2022, and the Lady Cutler Award, 2020, for distinguished services to Australian children's literature. In 2014 she won The Alice Award, a national award given to 'a woman who has made a distinguished and long term contribution to Australian literature'. In 2017 she won the Asher Award, a peace prize, for ASoldier, a Dog and a Boy.

Libby is a keen educator who has lectured part-time at Sydney University and is devoted to being an ambassador for poetry anywhere and everywhere. She has been a National Ambassador for Reading and often acts as a judge for various literary prizes, including the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

www.libbyhathorn.com

Christina Booth (Illustrator)
Christina Booth is the award-winning international author and illustrator of over 20 books for children. A CBCA Honour Book Award winner for her picture book Kip, Christina has also won numerous Notable Book Awards, and the Environment Award for Children's Literature for her books Welcome Home, and One CarelessNight. Trained as a teacher and artist, Christina has always loved nature, books, art and reading. She works from her studio on the small island of Lutruwita (Tasmania).