Karen Foxlee has been shortlisted in the 2023 YABBA Awards!
On the 17th of May, the 2023 YABBA Awards shortlisted Australian books were announced with Karen Foxlee’s ‘Dragon Skin’ being shortlisted in the Fiction for Years 7-9 category…
In ‘Dragon Skin’ we learn how to save a dragon : 1) Assemble equipment. Water, Weet-Bix, sugar, syringe, sticky tape, scissors. 2) Believe in everything. Pip never wants to go home. She likes to sit at the waterhole at dusk and remember Mika, her best friend. At home her mother’s not the same since her boyfriend moved in. They don’t laugh anymore and Pip has to go to bed early, turn off her light and pretend she doesn’t exist. When she finds a half-dead creature at the waterhole, everything changes. She knows she has to save this small dragon and return it to where it comes from. But how?
The Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBA) is an organisation that aims to provide children a voice within the general Australian children’s book industry. YABBA encourages children to recommend recent Australian published books, read all the recommendations for their peers, rate them against all others and then finally reward that book they feel is best.
Voting by Victorian school students closes on the 15th of September with the winners being announced on the 19th of October.