Simon Butters Simon Butters i(A145503 works by)
Gender: Male
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Simon Butters is a television script-writer and script editor, who works particularly as a key member of Jonathan M. Shiff Productions' core writing staff, including scripts for The Elephant Princess, H2O: Just Add Water, and Lightning Point. The programs for which he has worked as script editor include Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji, Scooter: Secret Agent, and Wicked Science.

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form y separately published work icon Beep and Mort ( dir. Rosemary Myers ) Australia : Windmill Pictures Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2022 23247334 2022 series - publisher film/TV children's An adaptation of Windmill Theatre's puppetry production about Mort, whose well-ordered life is disrupted by the arrival of chaotic robot Beep.
2024 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Children's Program
2024 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Children's Television Series
y separately published work icon The Hounded Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2016 9612099 2016 single work novel young adult

'Eliza wasn't at the bus stop that morning. The bus drove right on past and all Eliza's friends peered out to see where she'd gone. It was a mystery. A scandal. Eliza's disappearance was the hottest trending topic online. People knew something was up, but what?

'Nobody knew she was with me, Montgomery Ferguson, the lowest of the low. So it was that I first got to hang out with Eliza Robertson, the hottest girl in school with a heart of sheer contempt.

'I couldn't have been happier.

'On his fifteenth birthday, Monty is at rock bottom. Ignored by his parents, bullied at school, and with a brain that's prone to going walkabout, he's all by himself. Until he meets the black dog for the first time.

'It's just like any other dog, except that only Monty can see it. And it talks. And Monty's not sure whether it's a friend - or a foe. But the black dog gets him talking to pretty, popular Eliza Robertson for the first time. It takes him to places he's never been. And eventually it will take him, and the people around him, to the very edge.

'The Hounded is a book about depression and working out who you really are, from one of Australia's most prolific children's television writers.' (Publication summary)

2014 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award As 'Black Dog'.
2017 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Griffith University Young Adult Book Award
2017 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
form y separately published work icon Mako Mermaids Mako : Island of Secrets ( dir. Grant Brown et. al. )agent Australia : Jonathan M. Shiff Productions , 2013-2014 6897015 2013 series - publisher film/TV young adult fantasy

'When fifteen year-old Zac goes camping on Mako Island, he has no idea his every move is being monitored by real-life mermaids Sirena, Nixie and Lyla, whose job it is to ward off trespassers. When he comes into contact with the magical waters of the Moon Pool on the night of a full moon, Zac is given a taste of Mako's powers, waking the next day to discover he has been granted fin-like feet and the power to control water…causing all sorts of trouble for Sirena, Nixie and Lyla.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 10/1/2014)

2015 winner Australian Teachers of Media Awards Best Children’s Television Program Season 2
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