{"id":275,"date":"2011-06-27T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T13:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:15:28","slug":"in-the-company-of-scbwi-crystal-kite-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/in-the-company-of-scbwi-crystal-kite-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Company of SCBWI Crystal Kite Winner&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/oldsailorcrystalkite.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-276\" title=\"oldsailorcrystalkite\" src=\"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/oldsailorcrystalkite-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/oldsailorcrystalkite-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/oldsailorcrystalkite.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.clairesaxby.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clairesaxby.com\/\">Claire Saxby<\/a> writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry for children. Her poetry appears in magazines, anthologies, on train walls and in museum education resources.<\/p>\n<p>Claire\u2019s picture book publications include <em>Ebi\u2019s Boat<\/em> (Windy Hollow Books), illustrated by Anne Spudvilas, which was a CBCA Notable Book in 2007. Her most recent picture book is <em>There Was an Old Sailor<\/em> (<a title=\"http:\/\/www.walkerbooks.com.au\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.walkerbooks.com.au\/\">Walker Books Australia<\/a>), a nautical take on an old rhyme, illustrated by <a title=\"http:\/\/www.cassandrallen.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cassandrallen.com\/\">Cassandra Allen<\/a>. It was shortlisted for the 2010 Speech Pathology Awards and for the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Korean Picture Book Award, and won the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for Australia\/New Zealand region. Her most recent book is <em>Freaky Fact or Fiction: Human Body <\/em>(<a title=\"http:\/\/www.hinklerbooks.com\/OurProducts\/tabid\/279\/ItemId\/1259\/SeriesId\/1165\/ModuleView\/ViewDetails\/Default.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hinklerbooks.com\/OurProducts\/tabid\/279\/ItemId\/1259\/SeriesId\/1165\/ModuleView\/ViewDetails\/Default.aspx\">Hinkler Books<\/a>), the first of her books to combine her health-worker past and her writing present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claire Saxby writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry for children. Her poetry appears in magazines, anthologies, on train walls and in museum education resources. Claire\u2019s picture book publications include Ebi\u2019s Boat (Windy Hollow Books), illustrated by Anne Spudvilas, which was a CBCA Notable Book in 2007. Her most recent picture book is There Was an Old &#8230; <a title=\"In the Company of SCBWI Crystal Kite Winner&#8230;.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/in-the-company-of-scbwi-crystal-kite-winner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about In the Company of SCBWI Crystal Kite Winner&#8230;.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}