Ursula Dubosarsky is a Sydney-based author who has been publishing since 1989.
For a comprehensive guide to research materials relating to Ursula Dubosarsky held by the Lu Rees Archives at the University of Canberra, click here.
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Ursula was a recent guest on ABC Classic FM's Morning Interview show - click here to listen.
Want to learn how to draw the bear from The Terrible Plop? Click below to find out how in the wonderful illustrator Andrew Joyner's video.
Great news – Rex has won the KOALA Children's Choice picture book award!
The Terrible Plop has won the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award. For a photo of the winners click here.
Ursula's new rhyming picture book The Terrible Plop has arrived in the USA! Here's what Kirkus (starred review), the Horn Book, the US Publishers Weekly and the Los Angeles Times have to say about The Terrible Plop.
Watch this youtube interview about the book with a young fan, Grace.
The Terrible Plop has been chosen for The Little Big Book Club. Click here to see to see the club's ebook and hear it English, Cantonese and Indonesian!
Click here for a Terrible Plop colouring in sheet.
PLOP! the Windmill Theatre musical based on the book has played to packed houses in Adelaide and Brisbane and Canberra.
The Word Snoop is out!! Reviews from the US Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and the Junior Library Guild.
Hurray! The Word Spy has won the Children's Book Council of Australia Junior Judges' Project award and a honour book award. Click here for a fun Word Spy quiz.
The Australian edition, The Word Spy has won the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2009! To quote NSW Premier Nathan Rees:
"This wonderful book explains the use and history of words in a way that is as enjoyable as it is informative. While it was written for primary-aged children it will appeal to all ages," he said.
"This, her fifth NSW Premier's Literary Award, means Ursula Dubosarsky has now won more NSW Premier's Literary Awards than any other writer in the awards' 30 year history," Mr Rees said.
Ursula outside the NSW Art Gallery at the Premier's Literary Awards
Hurray! Rex has been chosen again in 2009 for the Children's Choice Book Awards Shortlist! Click here for "Rex" activities!
Ursula reading "Rex" to school children
Ursula's novel The Red Shoe is based on the 1954 Australian Cold War spy scandal, the Petrov Affair. This event has inspired several other Australian creative works, including Noelle Janaczewska's play Mrs Petrov's Shoe; Lee Whitmore's animation The Safe House, narrated by Noni Hazelhurst; Andrew Croome's Document Z, winner of the 2008 Vogel Award; and the 1987 television mini-series, The Petrov Affair.
Read here Ursula's most recent article in The Age, about darkness and the writer of "The Cunning Little Vixen".
