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Alan Sunderland
Children’s Author
Alan Sunderland is 45, married with three sons and lives in Sydney. He is a Walkley Award winning television reporter and the author of four children’s books. He has 25 years’ experience in journalism with the ABC and SBS. During that time, he has worked in the Canberra Press Gallery, reported throughout Australia and overseas, and managed SBS’ News and Current Affairs Department.
He won a Walkley Awards for covering an attack on the Iranian Embassy in Canberra in 1992, and for a series of exclusive reports from East Timor. He has also won the prestigious Council of the Deans of Education Award for education journalism three times in two years, which constitutes something of a record.
More recently, Alan started writing children’s books for 8-12 year olds. Toy Wars (published by Scholastic in 1999) was a fantasy adventure about a titanic battle between monsters and chess pieces, a story that explored notions of friends and enemies, and what it means to be different. Cosmo Cooper and the Lemons of Lockbarrel (Scholastic, 2002) followed the book’s hero, Cosmo Cooper, as he travelled from his tiny village into the big city to save his friends and family after disaster threatens their community.
Alan’s Refugee was released in June 2006 as part of the “My Australian Story” series published by Scholastic Australia. See the Scholastic web site for further information about the book and teacher's notes at www.scholastic.com.au.
In September 2006, HarperCollins Australia published the first in a children’s series Octavius O’Malley and the Mystery of the Exploding Cheese. The second book in the series Octavius O’Malley and the Mystery of the Missing Mouse was published in September 2007 and another O’Malley mystery will follow in 2008.
Alan is an entertaining presenter for schools and libraries. See our Speakers section and Alan's web site at www.alansunderland.com for more information.
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