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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News
The Terrible Plop is shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award.
See The Terrible Plop on stage as part of the special Book Week production at NIDA (National Institute for Dramatic Art) in Sydney August 26,27 & 28. Click here for more info. And Adelaide’s Windmill Theatre’s stage show of the book, Plop!, is getting ready to tour Australia – and possibly the world!
Click here to hear the Terrible Plop in Esperanto! Or here to hear it English, Cantonese and Indonesian courtesy of The Little Big Book Club
Read a review of The Red Shoe from 1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up.
The Return of the Word Spy, the sequel to The Word Spy is out now! The new book takes the readers deeper into the amazing world of words, covering grammar, etymology and all sorts of fascinating languages, such as silent languages, whistling languages, Esperanto and Braille. Read some great reviews from Booksellers and Publishers Weekly, the Sydney Morning Herald, and Magpies. And click here to listen to Ursula speak about the book on ABC radio's Lingua Franca.
Click here for a The Return of the Word Spy word search.Ursula Dubosarsky naskiĝis kaj kreskis en Sidnejo. Ŝi estis tria infano el familio de verkistoj. Want to read about Ursula's life in the international language Esperanto? You can, in Vikipedio. Click here.
Ursula was a recent guest on ABC Classic FM's Morning Interview show with Joe Gelonesi - 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.
Here's what Kirkus (starred review), the Horn Book, the US Publishers Weekly, the Los Angeles Times and theGuardianhave 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 for a Terrible Plop colouring in sheet.
The Word Snoop is out!! Reviews from the US Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and the Junior Library Guild.
When the Australian edition of The Word Spy won the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2009, the then Premier said of it:
"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
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.
Ursula at the Jigsaw Theatre production of 'The Red Shoe'
Read here Ursula's article in The Age, about darkness and the writer of 'The Cunning Little Vixen'.
