Short Bio:
Debra Tidball is a Sydney-based award-winning author of picture books, short stories, poems and plays for children. With social work and children’s literature qualifications, Debra is a children’s book enthusiast with a particular passion for picture books and the profound way they can touch children’s lives.
Longer Bio:
Debra is a children's author of award-winning picture books. The Scared Book won the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for Australia and New Zealand, and is a CBCA Notable Book. When I See Grandma won the Caleb Award and both books have been shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book Of the Year. Anchored was listed in the London Times and The Week Magazine as being one of the best books for children in summer 2023. She has a new picture book coming out mid 2024. Debra also has flash fiction, short stories, poems and plays published in anthologies and The School Magazine.
A zealous supporter of book creators in Australia, Debra is the vice president of her local sub-branch of the NSW CBCA, and you can read her interviews with authors on the Just Write For Kids blog, and find her tweeting @debratidball.
Debra has a Bachelor Degree in social work and a Masters in children’s literature and lives in Sydney with her family, surrounded by furry and feathery friends. For more information, visit Debra’s website at: http://www.debratidball.com
Debra Tidball is a Sydney-based award-winning author of picture books, short stories, poems and plays for children. With social work and children’s literature qualifications, Debra is a children’s book enthusiast with a particular passion for picture books and the profound way they can touch children’s lives.
Longer Bio:
Debra is a children's author of award-winning picture books. The Scared Book won the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for Australia and New Zealand, and is a CBCA Notable Book. When I See Grandma won the Caleb Award and both books have been shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book Of the Year. Anchored was listed in the London Times and The Week Magazine as being one of the best books for children in summer 2023. She has a new picture book coming out mid 2024. Debra also has flash fiction, short stories, poems and plays published in anthologies and The School Magazine.
A zealous supporter of book creators in Australia, Debra is the vice president of her local sub-branch of the NSW CBCA, and you can read her interviews with authors on the Just Write For Kids blog, and find her tweeting @debratidball.
Debra has a Bachelor Degree in social work and a Masters in children’s literature and lives in Sydney with her family, surrounded by furry and feathery friends. For more information, visit Debra’s website at: http://www.debratidball.com
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