Marcia Kay Vaughan Marcia Kay Vaughan i(A47257 works by) (a.k.a. Marcia K Vaughan; Marcia Kay Pearson)
Also writes as: Marcia Vaughn Crews
Born: Established: 1951 Tacoma, Washington (State),
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1981 Departed from Australia: 1990
Heritage: American
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BiographyHistory

Vaughan was born in the USA but lived in New Zealand's Cook Islands for a year before coming to Australia, where she worked as a school librarian. It was here that she began writing and being published. She wrote more than 85 well reviewed books, including fun activity and recipe books, and many in reader series such as Jellybean Readers, Celebrate Reading, Voyager and Literacy Links. She also wrote the Deadly and Dangerous Australian nature series for children, and her work Wombat Stew (1985) was been widely translated, with the characters used in children's road safety posters in New South Wales. Vaughan also wrote the Sticky Beak mystery series of 26 volumes. Many of the reviews have commented on the suitablility of her works to be read aloud and she has explained this in interviews by stating that she reads a story onto a cassette tape.

Although living in the USA since the early 1990s, Vaughan continued to write Australian stories, but it was her American history fiction such as The Secret to Freedom (2001), Up the Learning Tree (2003), Whistling Dixie (1996), and also the Australian-themed American publication of Snap! (1996) which won her awards and nominations from bodies such as the Society of School Libraries International, the American Library Association, and various American state children's reading bodies.

Wife of Richard Vaughan (q.v.).

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Wombat Stew Sydney : Ashton Scholastic , 1984 Z795136 1984 single work picture book children's 'In this classic Australian picture book, a dingo catches a wombat and wants to cook him in a stew. But all the other bush animals have a plan to save their friend. They trick the dingo into using mud, feathers, flies, bugs and gum nuts in his wombat stew, and the result is - a stew the dingo will never forget!' (Source: Publisher's website)
2004 YABBA Hall of Fame
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