Newsroom
News
Old Scholar shines with Book Week Accolade
29.08.18
Prue Mason grew up at Wandilo and attended Glencoe East Primary School, then Mater Christi College and then Tenison College being one of the students if it inaugural year. She now lives in Queensland with her husband, an airline pilot and co – author of Amazing Australians in theitr Flying Machines.
She is a licensed pilot and has travelled the world working in various jobs, including teaching English as a foreign language and working for a children’s magazine in Dubai. Besides writing, Prue does workshops and gives presentations at schools and writing festivals.
In 2005, her first book Camel Rider won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and was a Notable Book at the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards. This book is used as part of the Year 8 curriculum here and is being used in many schools around Australia and in some American Schools.
Read more about the book below:
Amazing Australians in Their Flying Machines
By Prue Mason and Kerry Mason
A book on how a handful of early aviators helped Australia reach beyond its borders to lands far away.
Imagine what it was like to travel to far-off places before there were aero planes. For early 20th-century Australians, it could take days, weeks, or months just to get where they were going. Amazing Australians and Their Flying Machines tells the stories of ten brave Australians, including the youngest licensed woman pilot Nancy Bird, who took to the skies and changed the face of aviation forever.”
This book was shortlisted in 2018 by Children’s Book Council of Australia, promoter of Book Week.
Eve Pownall Award
Entries in this category should be books which have the prime intention of documenting factual material with consideration given to imaginative presentation, interpretation and variation of style. Ages 0-18 years