Libby Hathorn: Biography Libby Hathorn is an award-winning Australian author of more than fifty books for children. Her stories have been translated into several languages and adapted for stage and screen. Her work has won honours and commendations in Australia as well as in the United States, United Kingdom and Holland. She was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2003 for services to children's literature.Hallmark Hall of Fame has made a movie of her best-selling young adult novel, Thunderwith, re-titled The Echo of Thunder. It starred Judy Davis, nominated for an EMMY award in the US for her performance as Gladwyn. In 2004, Libby's children's picture storybook, Sky Sash So Blue, published in the United States, was performed as an opera in Birmingham, Alabama. Previously, Grandma's Shoes was performed as a children's opera by Opera Australia and Theatre of Image. Libby was awarded an AWGIE for the libretto based on this picture storybook. She wrote the text for the picture storybook Way Home which won the Kate Greenaway Medal in the UK, and a Parents' Choice in the US and was adapted as a stage play. Libby has lectured part-time in Creative Writing, Children's Literature, at Sydney University. As an Australia Day Ambassador for the past 20 years, she travels to country towns each year where she talks about the importance of Australian literature. Devoted to poetry, Libby endeavours to encourage the art form, running workshops in schools, councils, libraries and in universities. She has spoken at conferences on writing and creativity both nationally and internationally including New Delhi, India (International Board of Books for Young People), as well as at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Wales and at Miles College in the USA. Her most recent works include Fire Song (ABC Books) which was Highly Commended in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2010, and a volume of poetry Vietnam Reflections (Pax Press, 2010), winner of the inaugural Poetry Prize in the Woollahra Word Festival. Her collection of Australian poetry The ABC Book of Australian Poetry was launched at the Children's Book Council of Australia NSW Conference in June 2010.With a life-long interest and passion for poetry and ways in which it serves creative thinking, she is currently working on a special arts project entitled 100 Views in several schools, both here and internationally. 100 Views celebrates community through poetry, artwork and a festival. Within her own company she has produced over 30 online stories with games and teacher notes one of which (Weirdstop) was the winner of the AIMIA Award. She loves stories in many different formats; her kindle titles include Fire Song, Letters to a Princess and Ghostly Ghastly, which is only available online. However, she is devoted to books, her latest children's picturebook I Love You Book celebrating this.See full booklist and awards www.libbyhathorn.comSee www.100Views.com.au