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
Non-Fiction
  • Wonderful Wasps, illustrated by Suzanne Houghton
  • Fabulous Frogs, illustrated by Suzanne Houghton