Thurley Fowler Thurley Fowler i(A1636 works by)
Born: Established: 1925 Griffith, Griffith (NSW) area, Riverina - Murray area, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Thurley Fowler grew up on a Murrumbidgee irrigation area farm similar to that described in her children's book The Green Wind which won the 1986 Australian Book of the Year Award. She had her first story, The Water Melon, published in the Sydney Sun which she wrote while still at school.

Her writing was interrupted when she moved from Griffith to Melbourne, married, began her family and subsequently became a Cub Master for fifteen years. Her enjoyment of her work with the cubs both inspired some of her children's book characters and gave her a heightened awareness of the need to respect the diversity of reader perspective through her writing.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Not Again, Dad! Victoria : Puffin , 1994 Z837720 1994 single work children's fiction children's humour For the three weeks that Mum is away at a conference, Dad takes over the household. This means work for Paul and his sister Juliet, and as the chaos unfolds, Paul thinks that his twelfth birthday will be the worst time of his life.
1995 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Younger Readers
y separately published work icon A Hippo Doing Backstroke Sydney : Hodder and Stoughton , 1988 Z831881 1988 single work children's fiction children's
1989 commended Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature
y separately published work icon The Green Wind Sydney : Weldon , 1985 Z794653 1985 single work children's fiction children's
2004 YABBA Hall of Fame
1986 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year Award
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