Katrina Germein
Katrina Germein is an Australian picture book author and early childhood educator. In 1997, while working in a remote Aboriginal community as a teacher, Germein wrote her first two picture books about her experiences. By 2023 Germein had written over 20 picture books, with some published internationally.
Awards
- Won - Notable 2000 CBCA Book of The Year Award Longlist: Early Childhood for Big Rain Coming
- Won - Notable 2001 CBCA Book of The Year Award Longlist: Early Childhood for Leaving
- Won - Notable 2010 CBCA Book of The Year Award Longlist: Early Childhood for Baby Gets Dressed
- Highly Commended - 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and shortlisted in the REAL Awards, Koala Awards, Cool Awards & Yabba Awards for My Dad Thinks He's Funny
- Shortlisted - Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards, 2014 for My Dad Still Thinks He’s Funny and My Mum Says the Strangest Things
- Won - Notable 2016 CBCA Book of The Year Award Longlist: Early Childhood for Thunderstorm Dancing
- Shortlisted - Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards, 2016 for Baby Dance
- Won - Notable 2018 CBCA Book of the Year Award Longlist: Early Childhood for Great Goal! Marvellous Mark!
- Won - Speech Pathology Book of the Year Award 2019 for Let's Go Strolling by Katrina Germein and Danny Snell
- Shortlisted - Speech Pathology Book of the Year Award 2022 for Before You Were Born
- Shortlisted - Speech Pathology Book of the Year Award 2023 for My Dad Thinks He's a Pirate, Wonderful Wasps and Baby Lou
- Won - SCBWI Crystal Kite Award 2023 and Honour book in CBCA Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood for Bev & Kev
- Won - Notable 2024 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Longlist: Early Childhood for One Little Duck
- Shortlisted - CBCA Book of the Year Awards: Early Childhood, 2024 and Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards for ''One Little Duck''
Works
Children's books- Big Rain Coming, illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft
- Leaving, illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft
- Baby Gets Dressed, illustrated by Sascha Hutchinson
- My Dad Thinks He's Funny, illustrated by Tom Jellett
- Littledog, illustrated by Tamsin Ainslie
- My Dad Still Thinks He's Funny, illustrated by Tom Jellett
- Somebody's House, illustrated by Anthea Stead
- My Mum Says the Strangest Things, illustrated by Tom Jellett
- Thunderstorm Dancing, illustrated by Judy Watson
- Baby Dance, illustrated by Doris Chang
- Great Goal! Marvellous Mark!, illustrated by Janine Dawson
- Let's Go Strolling, illustrated by Danny Snell
- Shoo You Crocodile!, illustrated by Tom Jellett
- My Dad Thinks He's Super Funny, illustrated by Tom Jellett
- Tell 'Em, written with Rosemary Sullivan and children from Manyallaluk School, illustrated by Karen Briggs
- Before You Were Born, illustrated by Helene Magisson
- Bev & Kev, illustrated by Mandy Foot
- My Dad Thinks He's a Pirate, illustrated by Tom Jellett
- Baby Lou, illustrated by Karen Blair
- One Little Duck, illustrated by Danny Snell
- Little Book Baby, illustrated by Cheryl Orsini
- My Dad Thinks He's a Scream, illustrated by Tom Jellett
- Wonderful Wasps, illustrated by Suzanne Houghton
- Fabulous Frogs, illustrated by Suzanne Houghton