# 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 (1999), illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft
* Leaving (2000), illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft
* Baby Gets Dressed (2009), illustrated by Sascha Hutchinson
* My Dad Thinks He's Funny (2010), illustrated by Tom Jellett
* Littledog (2011), illustrated by Tamsin Ainslie
* My Dad Still Thinks He's Funny (2013), illustrated by Tom Jellett
* Somebody's House (2013), illustrated by Anthea Stead
* My Mum Says the Strangest Things (2014), illustrated by Tom Jellett
* Thunderstorm Dancing (2015), illustrated by Judy Watson
* Baby Dance (2016), illustrated by Doris Chang
* Great Goal! Marvellous Mark! (2017), illustrated by Janine Dawson
* Let's Go Strolling (2018), illustrated by Danny Snell
* Shoo You Crocodile! (2019), illustrated by Tom Jellett
* My Dad Thinks He's Super Funny (2020), illustrated by Tom Jellett
* Tell 'Em (2020), written with Rosemary Sullivan and children from Manyallaluk School, illustrated by Karen Briggs
* Before You Were Born (2021), illustrated by Helene Magisson
* Bev & Kev (2022), illustrated by Mandy Foot
* My Dad Thinks He's a Pirate (2022), illustrated by Tom Jellett
* Baby Lou (2022), illustrated by Karen Blair
* One Little Duck (2023), illustrated by Danny Snell
* Little Book Baby (2024), illustrated by Cheryl Orsini
* My Dad Thinks He's a Scream (2024), illustrated by Tom Jellett
Non-Fiction
* Wonderful Wasps (2022), illustrated by Suzanne Houghton
* Fabulous Frogs (2024), illustrated by Suzanne Houghton